Hey there and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one expert page of Tomlin each day.

And I say that because today's page,

Chulin 12, is all about expertise. How so? Have a listen to this rather long bit.

Ravnachman says that Rav says, in the case of a person who saw one who slaughtered an animal,

if the person saw him slaughtering continuously from beginning

to end of the act, he is permitted to eat from his slaughter. And if not, he is prohibited

from eating from his slaughter. The Gamar asks, what are the circumstances? If it is a case

where the onlooker knows that he is knowledgeable in the halakot of slaughter, why do I require that the

onlooker saw the slaughter? Even if he did not see him slaughter, the onlooker may rely on his

slaughter. And if the onlooker knows that he is not knowledgeable in the halakot of slaughter,

it is obvious that only if the person saw him slaughtering from beginning to end he is permitted

to eat from his slaughter. Rather, perhaps it is a case what the onlooker does not know

whether he is knowledgeable or whether he is not knowledgeable. But if that is the case, let us say

the majority of those associated with slaughter are experts in the halakot of slaughter,

and one may rely on

his slaughter. The discussion is fascinating because earlier on in the Massehtha on page three,

we learned that if we are unsure that someone is an expert in the laws of shichita or

slaughtering, we can't eat the meat he slaughtered, even if we watched him perform the shhita

or the slaughtering.

But the two cases the rabbis explain are different, because the earlier case referred to us

just stumbling onto a process of shahita at random, whereas the process on today's page

discusses a situation in which a person is supervising a new and still in experience, Shoch.

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