Commentary for Chullin 58:1

אם כן הויא ליה עבודה באחר ותניא

But if this were so, then a [vital] service would have been performed by another, and it has been taught: The entire service of the Day of Atonement must be performed by the High Priest alone! - This is rather what he meant: I might have thought that [if another had not completed the slaughtering] it would have been invalid by decree of the Rabbis, (for it might have been argued that the Rabbis declared [the slaughtering] invalid) ;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. omits bracketed words.');">¹</span>

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