Chullin 32a

חולין ל״ב ע״א

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Topic

Finishing the פרה אדומה cases, the rules and measures of pausing during שחיטה (שהייה), and a new משנה on flawed שחיטות that make an animal a נבלה or a טרפה.

Overview

The amud finishes רבא's rules about a פרה אדומה slaughtered together with something else. An animal slaughtered with it by accident depends on the מחלוקת between רבי נתן and רבנן. A gourd cut on purpose ruins the פרה according to everyone, and a gourd cut by accident does not. Then a new משנה teaches that a pause (שהייה) in the middle of שחיטה makes it invalid. The תנא קמא measures the pause as 'כדי שחיטה' and רבי שמעון measures it as 'כדי ביקור'. The גמרא brings several opinions on how long 'כדי שחיטה' is, including רב, שמואל, רבי יוחנן, רבי חנניא and the scholars of ארץ ישראל. רבא rules that slow, nonstop cutting with a blunt knife is kosher. Questions about pauses that add up and a pause during the last part of the סימנין are raised and not resolved. The amud closes with a new משנה on flawed שחיטות (נבלה or טרפה), and the גמרא begins a contradiction that continues on the next amud.

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The steps (28)

1. StatementAnother animal was slaughtered by accident along with the red heifer
2. ChallengeWhy say something so obvious?
3. ResolutionThe point is that even an ordinary animal ruins the heifer
4. StatementCutting a gourd together with the heifer
5. StatementNew משנה: pausing in the middle of slaughtering
6. QuestionWhat does 'the time of a slaughter' mean?
7. ResponseThe time it takes to slaughter another animal
8. QuestionIs a bird measured by a bird or by an animal?
9. Responseרב never asked his teacher
10. StatementThe dispute: each kind by its own kind, or even a bird by an animal
11. Statementרבי חנניא: Time to Bring Another Animal and Slaughter It
12. ChallengeChallenge: Bringing From Anywhere Makes the Measure Unfixed
13. Resolutionרב פפא: The Difference Is a Standing Animal That Must Be Thrown Down
14. StatementIn the West: Lift, Lay Down and Slaughter, Small for Small and Large for Large
15. Statementרבא: Slaughtering With a Blunt Knife Is Valid Even If It Takes All Day
16. QuestionDo several short pauses add up?
17. ChallengeAnswer it from רבא's own ruling
18. ResolutionThat ruling had no pause at all
19. QuestionA pause while cutting the last small part
20. ConclusionThe question is left open
21. Statementרבי שמעון's measure from the משנה
22. QuestionWhat does 'כדי ביקור' mean?
23. ResponseThe time a חכם takes to examine
24. ChallengeThat time would change every time
25. ResolutionA slaughterer who is a חכם
26. StatementFour ways a שחיטה goes wrong, and the argument about them
27. StatementThe general rule: a bad שחיטה makes a נבלה, another cause makes a טרפה
28. ChallengeThe גמרא sets up a contradiction from the list of טרפות