Commentary for Chullin 40:27

מפני שהוא דורס

Abaye thereupon said to him, You can raise the same difficulty in the case of the burnt-offering of a bird which requires both organs to be nipped through, thus: Why proceed with the nipping if it is already dead?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For as soon as the first organ is severed the bird is certainly dead; hence the slaughtering of a bird is valid even if only one organ has been cut through. V. infra 27a.');">¹⁹</span>

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