Commentary for Chullin 32:14

נעץ סכין בכותל ושחט בה שחיטתו כשרה

[Baraitha] read: 'Whether the knife be below and the throat on top or the knife on top and the throat below'? - R'Zebid answered: The cases are to be interpreted each in its own way, thus: 'Whether the knife be below and the throat on top', where [the knife is] loose;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In this case the slaughterer holds the knife beneath the throat of the animal and cuts upwards.');">⁹</span>

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