Quoting%20commentary for Chullin 53:25

ואימא

What then does this verse teach us? - That one may not cut the animal into two.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. This prohibition is implicit in the word i.e., cleanse the animal from its blood by cutting the main organs of the throat tryxhd and no more. Others interpret . to mean, 'to cut with force'; the verse is therefore taken as a direct prohibition against chopping the neck or pressing the knife downwards while slaughtering, on this interpretation the rule against pressing has a Biblical basis, v. Rashi. ,jczu');">¹²</span>

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