Talmud for Shabbat 215:12

וזו שאילה שאל ביתוסי אחד את ר' יהושע הגרסי מניין שאין כותבין תפילין על עור בהמה טמאה דכתיב (שמות יג, ט) למען תהיה תורת ה' בפיך מדבר המותר בפיך אלא מעתה על גבי עור נבלות וטרפות אל יכתבו א"ל אמשול לך משל למה"ד לשני בני אדם שנתחייבו הריגה למלכות אחד הרגו מלך ואחד הרגו איספקליטור) איזה מהן משובח הוי אומר זה שהרגו מלך אלא מעתה יאכלו אמר ליה התורה אמרה (דברים יד, כא) לא תאכלו כל נבלה ואת אמרת יאכלו א"ל קאלוס:

nor may they be tied round with their hair or sewn with their tendons. And this question a certain Boethusian<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Boethusians were a sect similar to the Sadducees, and disagreed with the Pharisees on certain religious beliefs, such as immortality and its concomitant, reward and punishment in the hereafter, and resurrection, which they rejected; and in certain practices, viz., the date of Pentecost and the method of preparing incense on the Day of Atonement (Men. X, 3; Tosaf. Yoma I, 8-the parallel passage in Yoma 39a has 'Sadducees'). The opinion most generally held is that the Boethusians were a variety of the Sadducees. ');">²⁹</span> asked R. Joshua the grits dealer: How do we know that tefillin may not be written upon the skin of an unclean animal? Because it is written, 'that the law of thy Lord may be in thy mouth' [implying] of that which is permitted in thy mouth. If so, they should not be written on the skin of nebeloth and terefoth.? Said he to him, I will give you a comparison. What does this resemble? Two men who were condemned to death by the State, one being executed by the king and the other by the executioner. Who stands higher? Surely he who was slain by the king!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Similarly, nebeloth and terefoth may be regarded as slain by God. ');">³⁰</span> If so, let them be eaten? The Torah saith, Ye shall not eat any <i>nebelah</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut, XIV, 21. (E.V.: 'of anything that dieth of itself'). ');">³¹</span>

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