Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 137:23

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> מלק ונמצאת טריפה ר' מאיר אומר אינו מטמא בבית הבליעה

as terefah does not permit the forbidden, so everything which does not permit the forbidden [is included]: thus melikah, which is [performed] within, is excluded: since it permits the forbidden. it does not defile garments [when the flesh is] in the gullet.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The verse quoted is applied to the nebelah of a clean bird. Terefah is not interpreted literally, for reasons stated anon, but as a definition of nebelah, thus: only nebelah similar to terefah defiles. Now when a bird becomes terefah, that fact cannot possibly remove any prohibition to which it was subject. Similarly, only a nebelah which cannot remove a prohibition defiles. Now, melikah should render a bird of hullin nebelah, but a consecrated bird is thereby relieved of a prohibition, for whilst alive it could not be offered, whereas after melikah in the sanctuary it can be (i.e., its blood can be sprinkled on the altar, which is the essence of offering) . Hence it does not cause the bird to defile garments even when it is improperly done, e.g., at night or with the left hand.');">¹⁷</span> Hence it includes melikah (Mnemonic: Kez Hefez)<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A Mnemonic is a phrase consisting of a string of letters or words, as an aid to the memory. Here K = Kodashim (sacrifices) ; Z=behuz');">¹⁸</span> of sacrifices without, and melikah of hullin both within and without: since they do not permit the forbidden, they defile garments [when the flesh is] in the gullet. Another [Baraitha] taught: You might think that the shechitah of hullin within and [that of] sacrifices both within and without defile in the gullet: therefore nebelah is stated. But this too is 'nebelah'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since melikah is required for sacrifices, whilst hullin may not be slaughtered within at all, the birds so killed are nebelah!');">¹⁹</span> - Rather, therefore it states 'terefah': as terefah is the same within and without,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is forbidden in both places.');">²⁰</span> so all which are the same within and without [are included in this law]: thus the shechitah of hullin within and [that of] sacrifices within and without is excluded: since these are not the same within as without, they do not defile garments [when the flesh is] in the gullet. As for hullin, it is well: that is not the same within as without;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For hullin slaughtered without does not defile even when the shechitah does not permit it. e.g., if the bird is terefah.');">²¹</span> but sacrifices are unfit in both cases? - Said Raba: If shechitah without is effective in that it involves kareth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He who slaughters a sacrificial bird without the Temple incurs kareth. This proves that his act does count as shechitah.');">²²</span> shall it not be effective in cleansing it from [the defilement of] nebelah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It certainly is. Hence the deduction from the word 'terefah' is necessary only in respect of hullin, but not in respect of sacrifices,');">²³</span> We have thus found [it of shechitah] without; how do we know [it of shechitah] within? - Because it is not the same within as without.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sh. M.: Since shechitah without involves kareth, whilst shechitah within does not, although it actually requires melikah.');">²⁴</span> If so, when one performs melikah on sacrifices without, they too [should] not [defile], since within is not the same as without?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For melikah is proper within, but not without.');">²⁵</span> - Said R'Shimi B'Ashi: You infer that which does not make it fit from that which does not make it fit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. GIos.');">⁶</span> but you do not infer that which does not make it fit from that which does make it fit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., from melikah of sacrifices within, which is the proper way.');">²⁷</span> Do you not? Surely it was taught: How do we know that [if flesh] which went out ascended [the altar] it does not descend? Because [flesh] that goes out is fit at the high places? - The Tanna relies on the extension intimated in, 'This is the law of the burnt-offering'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VI, 2. V. supra ');">²⁸</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>IF ONE PERFORMED MELIKAH, AND IT [THE BIRD] WAS FOUND TO BE TEREFAH. R'MEIR SAID: IT DOES NOT DEFILE IN THE GULLET;

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