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Chulin 000: How does Shechitah kill an animal?
Avrohom Tzvi Elias asked:
For a kosher shechita we need only cut the trachea and
esophagus. How does this alone kill the
animal? The trachea is a hard tube and air can still
enter. Doctors perform a trachaeotomy on humans by
making a hole in the trachea of a patient who can't
breath. It appears to me that by cutting the windpipe
of an animal we are actually improving it's ability
to breath.
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The Kollel replies:
The difference can be found in the laws of Tereifos. "Nekuvas ha'Kaneh" (a
puncture in the trachea) does not render the animal a Tereifah. The animal
can live with a hole in the trachea. Shechitah must cut a majority of the
trachea. Accordingly, the animal cannot inhale if the trachea is severed
rather than punctured.
D. Zupnik
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