Midrash for Chullin 55:52
דלמא שאני התם דאיכא שדרה ומפרקת
What has been decided about the matter? 'What has been decided' [you ask]! Surely it is as you have stated.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the rule as stated with regard to nipping will apply likewise to slaughtering.');"><sup>20</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
R. Elazar Hakappar says: Now what did we learn from deer and hart? It came (ostensibly) to teach, but it (in the end) it was found to be taught, viz.: Just as a beast (must be slaughtered) through shechitah, so, an animal (e.g., deer and hart), through shechitah, (but a bird [must be slaughtered through shechitah] only by ordinance of the scribes). Rebbi says: "as He commanded you" (Ibid. 21) apprises us that Moses was commanded as to gullet and windpipe (as being the loci of shechitah) and as to the (cutting of) the major portion of one (of these being the criterion for shechitah) in a bird and of both, in a beast.
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