Quoting%20commentary for Chullin 159:52

מדקא חשיב ליה בהדי חיות מינא דחיה הוא

We know that according to R'Simeon a slaughtering which does not render [the animal] fit is no slaughtering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'its name is not slaughtering'. Any act of slaughtering which does not for any reason whatsoever effect the ritual fitness of the animal to be eaten is not considered in the eye of the law a slaughtering. Any such act would not be a transgression of the prohibition of 'It and its young', for Scripture speaks of 'slaughtering' in this connection.');">¹⁷</span>

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