Commentary for Chullin 64:38

מי מצטרף סימן ראשון לסימן שני לטהרה מידי נבלה או לא

Is the first organ to be reckoned together with the second in order to render the animal clean, and not nebelah, or not?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The effect of slaughtering, it must be remembered, is twofold: (a) the animal is permitted to be eaten, and (b) it is not nebelah; and, it is suggested, in order that the slaughtering be valid each organ must serve this twofold purpose. In our case, however, whereas the cutting of the first organ tends to produce this twofold effect the cutting of the second organ does not, for the defect that has occurred in the intestines before the cutting of the second organ has already precluded (a) ; the slaughtering therefore should be invalid absolutely. On the other hand, it might be argued that the slaughtering should be effective at least with regard to (b) , since this purpose is common to both organs.');">¹⁶</span>

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