Commentary for Zevachim 140:14

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך חטאת העוף</strong></big><br><br>

Where one did indeed behead it, no text is required; it is required only where one slaughtered it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After becoming forbidden whilst alive through being set aside for this purpose, it was slaughtered (with shechitah) instead of beheaded. Then a text is required to shew that its heleb does not defile.');">¹⁷</span> Then let shechitah be efficacious in cleansing it from nebelah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though shechitah will not permit it, at least it should free it from defilement, since we find no instance of a slaughtered and clean (permitted) animal defiling.');">¹⁸</span>

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