Commentary for Chullin 255:29

מר סבר

Rabbah raised the following question: Can the living animal serve as a handle to the limb or not?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This question is founded upon the view of R. Meir who, on Rabbah's interpretation, holds that the slaughtered animal serves as a handle to the loose limb. If it is held that the living animal can also serve as a handle to the loose limb, then the position would be that if unclean matter came into contact with the body of the animal, although it could not itself contract uncleanness thereby for it is alive, it could nevertheless act as a 'handle' to convey the uncleanness to the loose limb (provided the limb was first moistened by water) .');">¹⁹</span>

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