Responsa for Chullin 107:25
כל אותן שנים ששימש אותו תלמיד בישיבה אני שמשתי בעמידה ומאן גבר הוא גבר בכולא
The members of the house of Joseph the fowler used to kill beasts by striking them on the sciatic nerve.
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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