Responsa for Chullin 107:2
קנה נקובתו בכאיסר דרוסתו בכמה
what is the law as to the clawing thereof? - After raising this question he himself answered it thus: In either organ the slightest indication of clawing [will render the animal trefah].
Shut min haShamayim
They responded: There is a great principle in the kashrut of animals: "One who adds, will have added life, and one who does not add, let him be gathered away." (Taanit 31a.4) It seems from this that one who is stringent is blessed.2The opposite principle is mentioned in Chullin 54a.10, see Mishneh Torah, Shechitah 10.12
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