Responsa for Chullin 17:47
נטל
or not? - R'Huna replied: We do not apprehend that it inserted [its teeth] in a perforation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because of the presumption that, once ritually slaughtered, the animal is permitted until it becomes known how it became trefah.');"><sup>26</sup></span>
Shut min haShamayim
They responded: the halacha is well known - "A slaughtered animal is presumed to be kosher" (Chullin 9a:8), and "We do not presume things to be prohibited" (Rif Chullin 18a:4). Yet all who are stringent regarding the lungs will merit to sit in the Heavenly Yeshiva.
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