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	Shechitah - January 30, 2004 - Raphael Grunfeld
		The location on the throat on which Shechitah is performed is the area between the larynx and the lower part of the trachea and the esophagus.
		The Shechitah process starts out with the inspection of the slaughtering knife, the Chalaf, which must be entirely free of any nicks or blemishes which might tear the animal’s skin and thereby invalidate the Shechitah.
		One of the arguments leveled against Shechitah by its opponents is that it is not described anywhere in the Torah and it is an invention of the Rabbis.
	www.ounetwork.org /torah/dafyomi/5764/013004.htm (0 words)

	html.holocaustandanimals
		But shechitah itself and the rules guarding the shochet's profession are post-biblical, and you will not find biblical references to this practice.
		Hygienic it may be, but it is also an exceptionally cruel method of slaughtering; it requires the lifting of an animal off the ground--perhaps a 1200 pound steer by a leg, which frequently results in the wrenching, twisting, lacerating or breaking of the animal's leg as he swings overhead in pain and terror.
		Not only is this horrific, it is a violation of the intent of shechitah, and a violation of Jewish law which prohibits shackling an animal by a leg so as to cause it pain.
	www.micahbooks.com /readingroom/shechitah.html (1259 words)

	What’s The Truth About…Giraffe Meat!
		Fact: The makom shechitah (region of the neck in which ritual slaughter is valid) on a giraffe is precisely defined by halachah, just as it is for all animals, and the only impediments to shechting giraffe are cost and practical considerations.
		The physical indicia of a kosher mammal are that it be a ruminant and have split hooves (Leviticus 11:2-8 and Deuteronomy 14:4-8).
		Regarding the makom shechitah, the Talmud (Chullin 27a) probes for the Biblical source that slaughtering must be performed at the neck, and concludes that it is a tradition, a law given to Moses at Sinai.
	www.kashrut.com /articles/giraffe (556 words)

	JesusVeg.com: Scholarly Works: Judaism & Vegetarianism
		The proper method of slaughter, shechitah, involves the slitting of the animal's throat with a razor-sharp knife, and is performed by a specially trained, religiously pious Jewish butcher.
		In keeping with the Noachic law forbidding the dismembering of animals and their attendant suffering, shechitah is seen as a humane method of obtaining permissible meat.
		Some have argued that shechitah may well have been the most humane manner of slaughter in the past, but suggest that current methods like the use of the captive bolt pistol render animals instantly insensible, and is therefore in better keeping with tsa'ar ba'alei chayim.
	www.jesusveg.com /4.html (4545 words)

	The Human Biosphere - Chassidic Masters - Parsha
		At the other end of the spectrum are fish, which require no shechitah at all.[1] Birds occupy the middle ground between land animals and fish: they do require shechitah, but the severing of (a majority of) only one of the vital passages--either the windpipe or the gullet--is sufficient.
		Chassidic teaching, however, uncovers the deeper significance of this law: that the function of shechitah is to draw forth--to draw the animal out from its beastly state and into the domain of a life consecrated to the service of the Creator.
		Hence the differing shechitah requirements for the three components of the inner life of man. The animal soul requires a full-fledged shechitah: comprised solely of the soil of materialism, it must be drained of all vitality and passion so that its substance might be drawn forth into the realm of holiness.
	www.chabad.org /parshah/article.htm/aid/2870/jewish/The-Human-Biosphere.html (0 words)

	Shechitah (Ritual Slaughtering) - Jewish Knowledge Base
		One of these concerns shechitah, the ritual slaughter of fowls, lambs and beef so that Jews are permitted to eat the meat.
		A number of groups are applying pressure in an attempt to ban shechitah, or to...
		The spiritual significance of shechitah; the laws of kashrut applied to the beast, bird and fish within the soul of man
	www.chabad.org /search/keyword.htm/kid/1657/jewish/Shechitah-Ritual-Slaughtering.html (0 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Kosher slaughter, shechitah, involves cutting the trachea and esophagus with a sharp, flawless knife.
		After the shechitah at AgriProcessors, an additional cut is made in the carotid arteries to further accelerate the bleeding.
		She said after viewing the shechitah that the animals were unconscious within two to three seconds.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=13455 (1035 words)

	My bar mitzvah is soon and I must find a meal - my rabbi told me this is good hunting (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Misconception: Although the giraffe is a kosher animal, it is not slaughtered because it is not known where on the neck to perform the shechitah (ritual slaughter).
		Fact: The makom shechitah (region of the neck in which ritual slaughter is valid) on a giraffe is precisely defined by halachah, just as it is for all animals, and the only impediments to shechting giraffe are cost and practical considerations.
		Regarding the makom shechitah, the Talmud (Chullin 27a) probes for the Biblical source that slaughtering must be performed at the neck, and concludes that it is a tradition, a law given to Moses at Sinai.
	www.pataphysics-lab.com /board/messages/21371.html (985 words)

	Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - NEWS
		A movement to ban shechitah in Holland was withdrawn this month, although the referendum gained a "very disturbing" amount of popularity, says Dr. Avi Beker, secretary general of the World Jewish Congress.
		In shechitah, the animal is killed with a sharply- honed knife within a fraction of a second.
		Those working to ban shechitah by postulating that the practice is inhumane are presenting false information, says Rabbi Doniel Schur of Heights Jewish Center Synagogue who supervises kashrut for certain food establishments in Cleveland.
	chareidi.shemayisrael.com /archives5763/VRH63vshech.htm (584 words)

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		The movement to ban shechitah proceeds from various motivations, chief among them a total inability to appreciate the weightiness of a divine command, a mitzvah.
		Yet one hears not a peep against shechitah, and my prediction is that we needn't worry about the future of kosher slaughter in America.
		Even to consider a ban on shechitah, Americans would first have to shed their appreciation for Judaism, and I see little immediate danger of that.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0702/kosher_country.asp (657 words)

	The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This seems to be one of the issues in the background of the recent controversy over the shechitah (kosher slaughtering) practices at the Iowa-based Agriprocessors plant.
		Shechitah requires one clean cut through the animal’s throat, instantly severing the windpipe and the arteries and veins supplying blood to the brain.
		Modern shechitah opponents allege that the animal feels pain during this process, and they demand that the animal be stunned or anesthetized first.
	www.jewishchronicle.org /issues/20041217/localnews.htm (808 words)

	mentalblog.com: Tzaar Baalei Chaim Achar ha-Shechitah
		Shechitah (22:9), who hold that after the two simanim are cut, the animal is halachically dead and there can be no TBC.
		He was punished for failing to show compassion toward the distressed animal; and his punishment was not rescinded until he took mercy upon a nest of weasels in his home -- lifnim meshuras ha-din.
		PS: Despite his affirmation that TBC may take place after shechitah, the Daas Kedoshim permits it if there is a legitimate human need and the pain inflicted is not gratuitous.
	www.mentalblog.com /2004/12/tzaar-baalei-chaim-achar-ha-shechitah.html (383 words)

	INSITES OF THE DAY - Chulin, Daf 29
		Shechitah obviously is an obligatory part of offering the Korban, and yet the Gemara in Yoma (42a) teaches that the Torah permits even a non-Kohen to slaughter the Korban Tamid on Yom Kipur, since Shechitah is not considered to be an Avodah.
		The beginning of the Shechitah rendered the Korban unfit to be brought on Pesach Sheni as a Korban Pesach, and thus it automatically becomes a Korban Shelamim.
		Rather, for the Shechitah to serve to permit the animal, the animal must be exhibiting a higher degree of life (i.e.
	www.dafyomi.co.il /chulin/insites/ch-dt-029.htm (2515 words)

	Animal Sacrifice and Satanism
		During shechitah the animal is killed with a quick, deep stroke across the throat with a perfectly sharp blade with no nicks or unevenness.
		Shechitah is recognized as a humane method of killing an animal, more so than a bullet, which is often an innacurate method, and safer than poison or chemical methods that can leave traces of dangerous chemicals in the meat.
		Other ritualistic components are that the shochet who performs the shechitah must not simply be a butcher, he must be well trained in Jewish law, particularly as it relates to kashrut.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/proxy/1757/Animalsacrifice.htm (1112 words)

	Kollel Ohr Yosef - For Advanded Study of Halacha - Hilchos Tevillas Keilim
		The Rema -- unlike the Shulchan Aruch -- appears to rule that a shechitah knife does require tevillah (albeit without a brachah) as it is used at a stage where the food is not fit for consumption.
		Apparently a shechitah knife is considered to have no use, aside from its use as a shechitah knife and is therefore considered to be muktzah.
		The difference between the two implements is that the shechitah knife takes primary importance in the preparation of food, whereas the implement for making holes in matzah has only a secondary importance.
	www.ohryosef.org /tevillas/tks004.htm (605 words)

	Yoma 027: The Zar - Shechitah and Lottery
		I have heard in the name of Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz zt'l that the Kohanim were Machmir to do Shechitah themselves even though it is Kosher with a Zar.
		He brought a proof from Berachos 31b that the Kohanim were unaware of the fact that Shechitah is Kosher by a Zar.
		However, the Ritva in Yoma 25a says that even though Shechitah is Kosher by a Zar, nevertheless it is a Mitzvah for a Kohen to do it.
	www.shemayisrael.com /pipermail/daf-discuss_shemayisrael.co.il/2006-July/001005.html (661 words)

	The Jewish Chronicle
		Butchers and restaurateurs are demanding a cut in shechitah fees which they say threaten to make kosher meat and poultry unaffordable for many consumers.
		Although the chickens are reared in the same sheds until slaughter, we found that those that end up in a North-West London kosher butcher’s typically cost £10.53 for a two-kilo bird, compared with £3.99 charged for non-kosher birds of a similar weight in a leading supermarket.
		We have the best shechitah in the world, but the administrative costs need to be cut.
	www.thejc.com /home.aspx?ParentId=m11s19s116&SecId=116&AId=44353&ATypeId=1 (540 words)

	GoVeg.com // Agriprocessors // Important Correspondence
		Each scene depicts an animal as he is restrained in the Facoima pen, a device that rotates the animal's body 180 degrees prior to slaughter so that the animal is upside-down when the shochetim (the member of the Jewish religion who executes the cut) slits the throat with a knife.
		Eventually, a shackle is attached to one of the rear legs of the animal, who is then hung on the "bleed rail" and conveyed to another room to be decapitated and skinned prior to further processing.
		Assuming that the estimates of experts in shechitah are correct and that it takes 10 to 20 seconds for an animal to be rendered insensible, all the animals in the video are still conscious when their tracheas and esophagi are ripped from their bodies.
	www.goveg.com /feat/agriprocessors/letter-Shafer-Complaint.asp (4553 words)

	INSITES OF THE DAY - Chulin, Daf 13
		The Gemara earlier (9a) establishes that one is required to examine the Simanim after Shechitah in order to ascertain that a majority of the Simanim were cut during the Shechitah.
		Perhaps Rashi means that the Shechitah is valid b'Di'eved because we are concerned that the Shochet will examine the Simanim in the dark, and he will not do a thorough examination of the Simanim.
		While Shechitah needs to be done during daylight or with a bright torch, one may examine the Simanim by holding a candle next to the area of the cut Simanim.
	dafyomi.shemayisrael.co.il /chulin/insites/ch-dt-013.htm (2439 words)

	Visitors
		"Shechitah can be carried out only by a man of high moral character!
		You can only take life with divine sanction, and you must use a knife of perfect sharpness that is absolutely painless when the Shochet cuts the animal's throat."
		"You won't feel a thing now," he said as he performed Shechitah on the Shochet.
	www.vegsource.com /harris/visitors.htm (0 words)

	Re: Yoma 027: The Zar - Shechitah and Lottery
		I have heard in the name of Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz zt'l that the Kohanim were Machmir to do Shechitah themselves even though it is Kosher with a Zar.
		He brought a proof from Berachos 31b that the Kohanim were unaware of the fact that Shechitah is Kosher by a Zar.
		However, the Ritva in Yoma 25a says that even though Shechitah is Kosher by a Zar, nevertheless it is a Mitzvah for a Kohen to do it.
	www.mail-archive.com /daf-discuss%40shemayisrael.co.il/msg01053.html (662 words)

	AR-News: (UK) Fighting For Kosher Slaughter In Britain
		Currently all animals slaughtered for food in Britain must be stunned before their throats are cut, except for those killed by kosher and halal methods, the latter for the Muslim form of ritual slaughter.
		When shechitah was last seriously threatened in 1985, the government had to deal with a number of different Jewish organizations — an approach that Shechita UK says weakened the community's effectiveness.
		The studies also say that shechitah, in draining the blood quickly by a precision cut, minimizes pain, since consciousness is lost rapidly.
	lists.envirolink.org /pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20031110/010017.html (745 words)

	Jewish Review: Belgium eyes kosher slaughter ban (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the community recently sent representatives to Senate hearings on a proposed law affecting shechitah, the traditional Jewish method of killing animals for meat consumption.
		Shechitah has been legal in Belgium since 1808, when Napoleon granted Judaism the status of an official religion.
		However, because of the size of the Jewish population in Belgium, not many animals are killed according to shechitah: Of a total of 549,000 cattle killed in Belgium in 2004, just 382 were killed by kosher slaughterers.
	www.jewishreview.org /Archives/Article.php?Article=2005-09-01-1598 (321 words)

	GoVeg.com // Agriprocessors // What the Experts Say // Answering to a Higher Authority
		Jewish law (halacha) for kosher slaughter (shechitah) is quite strict and the process is supposed to be less traumatic for animals than mass production methods used in ordinary slaughterhouses, where high-speed slaughter lines often leave conscious animals dangling in the air—their full bodyweight pulling their hip joints out of their sockets.
		No pressure may be applied to the blade as it is drawn across the animal’s throat, and the major arteries, trachea, and esophagus must all be severed with absolutely no hesitation and with a continuous stroke.
		One of the five basic disqualifications of shechitah is the tearing of the trachea and esophagus.
	www.goveg.com /feat/agriprocessors/law.asp (698 words)

	Boycott Watch - Holland & Kosher Ritual Slaughter - Resolved (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The local Agriculture Ministry informed Jewish community leaders there that they would no longer be permitted to slaughter cows in a kosher manner [shechitah] because of its "cruelty" to the animals.
		We have been dealing with this issue for many years, and there are many scientific studies that back us up." M.E., a religious Jew from Holland, does not appear worried: "The main concern is whether there is kosher meat in the store or not...
		He will also have to respond to such accusations here at home; MK Avraham Poraz of the anti-religious Shinui party has congratulated Holland on its decision, saying that shechitah is cruel.
	www.boycottwatch.org /misc/hollandkosher.htm (539 words)

	INSIGHTS TO THE DAF - YOMA 42
		Rav rules that the Shechitah of the bull of Aharon may be performed even by a non-Kohen.
		In contrast, the Shechitah of the Kohen Gadol's bull must be performed by the Kohen Gadol simply because he is the owner of the bull, and the Torah requires that the owner of the bull perform the Shechitah.
		The Brisker Rav suggests that perhaps the Shechitah of even these Korbanos is not an Avodah (as the Gemara in Menachos implies), but nevertheless the Torah requires that the Kohen Gadol perform the Shechitah.
	www.dafyomi.co.il /yoma/insites/yo-dt-042.htm (1184 words)

	Thoughts on the Parasha
		shechitah – was performed as part of the process of sacrifice.
		Shechitah was not performed merely to prepare meat for consumption.
		shechitah is based on a passage in the Torah.
	www.mesora.org /RabbiFox/reeh62.htm (1424 words)

	Daf Yomi
		Consequently the matter was researched, and the conclusions proved that shechitah is one of the best methods to prevent cruelty to animals.
		Hence, even if we assume that an animal eventually feels the pain of being cut, it is reasonable to assume that the centers of pain-sensation in the brain stop functioning due to lack of oxygen before the feeling of pain reaches them.
		There is support for this assumption from the fact that an animal doesn't move at all for eight seconds after shechitah, evidence that it feels no pain.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/16063/Daf_Yomihtml (855 words)

	ISRAEL613.COM_SHECHITA1
		It is advisable for every observant Jew to learn the laws of shechitah in the Yoreh Deah or in the Chochmas Adam to know how to conduct himself in these matters.
		I am sure that the reason there are shechitah gezeros (Jews being slaughtered by the Goyim) in our times is because we did not keep our eyes on the schochtim as we should.
		Then he accuses; after he is trapped in his sin, he accuses; he assembles his relatives, his friends, and his acquaintances to instigate a quarrel with his opponents, and then he takes a soul.
	www.israel613.com /KASHRUT-monsey-kruka-3.htm (3720 words)

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