Commentary for Chullin 54:58

זאת תורת הבהמה והעוף

Now if you were right in holding that birds do not require to be ritually slaughtered by the law of the Torah, then stabbing is all the slaughtering that is required for them, consequently there is surely an obligation to cover the blood! - You are assuming that the above [Mishnah] deals with a bird; in fact it deals with the case of a wild animal only.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is rendered fit only by slaughtering, and therefore if one stabbed the beast to death there is no obligation to cover the blood.');">²⁸</span>

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