Hey there and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one necessary page of Chalmud each day. And today's pages,

Hulin 29 and 30, contain a bit of an oddity about them. A bit earlier, a few daphs ago,

you may remember, we learned that it was not necessary to fully cut the esophagus and the trachea

while performing a kosher shakita or slaughtering.

If the choket or slaughterer cut the majority of those simanim or marks in the animal's body,

it was enough.

And then comes the closing line of the Mishnah on our pages today and teaches us the same exact law again.

And this naturally baffled the rabbis.

Why would the Mishnah teach us the same exact thing twice?

Why would it repeat itself?

Rav Hushaya to the rescue.

Both, he argues, are necessary because one mention is here to teach us that this law is true in ordinary situations

of ritual slaughter and the other to teach us that this law is true specifically in

kudashim or ritual slaughter that is part of the sacrificial service in the temple

he gives us a pretty good and thorough explanation of his logic had the Mishnah only taught this law in the context of ordinary ritual slaughter, he argues,

we might have thought that it is only true when the point of the activity is to slaughter an animal for its meat.

Whereas, in the case of Kudashim, the slaughter was needed for the animal's blood.

And had the Mishna only taught this law in the context of Kodashim, the slaughter was needed for the animal's blood. And had the Mishnah only taught this law in the context of Kodashim,

we might have thought that only there do we need the majority of the Simanim

or the marks in the animal's body to be cut,

and that when we perform an ordinary slaughter, perhaps we could be looser.

To make sure we don't make any mistakes and cover all of our bases,

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