Related%20passage for Chullin 2:3

הִתִּיז אֶת הָרֹאשׁ בְּבַת אַחַת, פְּסוּלָה. הָיָה שׁוֹחֵט וְהִתִּיז אֶת הָרֹאשׁ בְּבַת אַחַת, אִם יֵשׁ בַּסַּכִּין מְלֹא צַוָּאר, כְּשֵׁרָה. הָיָה שׁוֹחֵט וְהִתִּיז שְׁנֵי רָאשִׁים בְּבַת אַחַת, אִם יֵשׁ בַּסַּכִּין מְלֹא צַוָּאר אֶחָד, כְּשֵׁרָה. בַּמֶּה דְבָרִים אֲמוּרִים. בִּזְמַן שֶׁהוֹלִיךְ וְלֹא הֵבִיא, אוֹ הֵבִיא וְלֹא הוֹלִיךְ. אֲבָל אִם הוֹלִיךְ וְהֵבִיא, אֲפִלּוּ כָל שֶׁהוּא, אֲפִלּוּ בְאִזְמֵל, כְּשֵׁרָה. נָפְלָה סַכִּין וְשָׁחֲטָה, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁשָּׁחֲטָה כְדַרְכָּהּ, פְּסוּלָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברים יב), וְזָבַחְתָּ וְאָכַלְתָּ, מַה שֶּׁאַתָּה זוֹבֵחַ, אַתָּה אוֹכֵל. נָפְלָה הַסַּכִּין וְהִגְבִּיהָהּ, נָפְלוּ כֵלָיו וְהִגְבִּיהָן, הִשְׁחִיז אֶת הַסַּכִּין וְעָף, וּבָא חֲבֵרוֹ וְשָׁחַט, אִם שָׁהָה כְדֵי שְׁחִיטָה, פְּסוּלָה. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, אִם שָׁהָה כְדֵי בִקּוּר:

If he hewed or chopped off the head at one blow, it is Pasool. If, when killing, he had accidentally cut off the whole head, it is Cashér, if the knife extended the width of a neck [beyond the place cut]. When a person in killing cut off two heads at once: if the knife extends the width of one neck only beyond the places cut, it is Cashér. This is, however, only in case the knife had been passed down the throat of the animal only, without drawing it back, or that the second or back cut was only made without the down [or first] cut; but if the knife in cutting was drawn to and fro, if it exceeded in the least the width of the throat of the animals, even if it was as small as a penknive or lancet, it is Cashér. Should a knife happen to drop accidentally on the throat of an animal, although it was duly slaughtered in consequence, yet it is Pasool; for it is said [Deut. xxvii. 7], "Thou shalt sacrifice, and thou shalt eat," viz. that only which thou [thyself] sacrificest, that shalt thou eat. If whilst in the act of slaughtering, the knife should drop from a person's hand, and he picked it up; or his clothes, and he picked them up; or, that having become exhausted by the exertion of setting or sharpening the knife, it was necessary that another person should finish the cutting; if the delay thereby occasioned was such, that during its duration another similar animal might have been slaughtered, it is Pasool. R. Simeon said, "When a knife could have been examined during the interval."

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