Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 114:18

ואין לי אלא תמימים

then thou shalt kill [o thy herd etc.],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XII, 21.');">³¹</span> [teaching] you may kill far from the place [sc. the Temple], but not in the place, thus excluding hullin, [viz. ,] that it may not be killed in the Temple Court. Again, I know this only of unblemished animals, which are eligible to be sacrificed: whence do I know to include blemished ones? I include blemished animals, since they are of a fit species.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., fit for sacrifice.');">³²</span> Whence do I know to include beasts?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hayyah, wild beast (e.g., the deer) , as opposed to behemah, domestic animal.');">³³</span> I include beasts, since they require shechitah,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">³⁴</span> as a [domestic] animal,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence, both may not be done in the Temple Court.');">³⁵</span> How do I know to include birds?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shechitah is not explicitly stated in the Bible in their case.');">³⁶</span> Therefore it is stated, and he shall kill it, and he shall kill it, and he shall kill it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One intimates that beasts shall not be killed in the Temple Court; one, fowls; as for the third, two explanations are offered: (i) that it excludes blemished animals; or (ii) that it teaches that these may not be eaten if killed within the Temple. - Hence, when the Baraitha states: I include blemished animals because . . beasts because . . the meaning is that these might be deduced by analogy, but for the three verses quoted.');">³⁷</span> I might think, One may not kill [hullin in the Temple Court]; yet if he does, it is permitted [to eat it]: therefore it is stated: If the p far from thee, then thou shalt kill. and thou shalt eat: you may eat what you kill far from the place, but what you kill in the place, thus excluding hullin killed in the Temple Court.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That it may not be eaten.');">³⁸</span> Now, I know this only of unblemished animals,

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