Commentary for Chullin 37:27

א"ל רב יוסף

only where the slaughterer first cut a third above the top ring and then the other two thirds in it-according to R'Jose son of R'Judah it is analogous with the case where half the windpipe was mutilated<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 28a. In the case of a bird, which, according to law only requires one of the organs to be cut, if half the windpipe was mutilated before the slaughtering by reason of an accident, and a person cut just a fraction more of the windpipe according to ritual, the slaughtering is valid, although when the life escaped the greater part had not been cut in the ritual manner. In our case, therefore, the cutting outside the prescribed area should be regarded as a mutilation of the windpipe, so that when the greater part of the windpipe is cut immediately afterwards the slaughtering should be valid.');">¹⁴</span>

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