Chullin 33a

חולין ל״ג ע״א

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Topic

Whether the first and second סימנים join together to save an animal from נבלה impurity when the animal became a טרפה in the middle of the שחיטה, and a new teaching from ריש לקיש's rule about inviting people to eat the innards.

Overview

The גמרא asks whether the two cuts of שחיטה still join together to save an animal from נבלה impurity when it became a טרפה between the first and second cut. It limits the question to טומאה only, since eating is surely forbidden. רב אחא בר רב then suggests רבי זירא never changed his view at all. Next, רב אחא בר יעקב learns from ריש לקיש that Jews may be invited to eat the innards of a convulsing slaughtered animal, but a גוי may not, because for a גוי only death permits the meat. A ברייתא disagrees: meat cut from the neck and eaten after the animal dies is permitted to both, and this supports רב אידי בר אבין. A new משנה teaches that if no blood came out during שחיטה, the meat was never made able to become טמא, while רבי שמעון says the שחיטה itself does this. The גמרא asks why impure hands, which are only a שני, would matter for חולין, and proves four ways that the משנה is about חולין. רב נחמן answers that the case is חולין bought with מעשר שני money, not following רבי מאיר. The משנה he quotes to show this comes on the next amud.

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The steps (16)

1. QuestionDo the two cuts join to save the animal from נבלה impurity?
2. StatementThe question is only about purity, not about eating
3. RejectionMaybe רבי זירא never changed his mind
4. StatementFrom ריש לקיש: you may invite Jews to eat the innards, but not a גוי
5. ResponseWhy a Jew may eat the innards but a גוי may not
6. Statementרב פפא almost asked a question but held back
7. ChallengeA ברייתא permits the meat to both Jew and גוי
8. ProofThe ברייתא supports רב אידי בר אבין
9. StatementSlaughter with no blood: the meat cannot become impure
10. ChallengeWhy would impure hands matter even if blood came out?
11. QuestionHow do we know the משנה is about חולין?
12. ProofFirst proof: the משנה lists a wild animal
13. ProofSecond proof: a sacrifice with no blood would not be valid
14. ProofThird proof: sacrifice blood does not make food able to become impure
15. ProofHoly food is already able to become impure without blood
16. ResolutionThe case is ordinary food bought with second-tithe money