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

Hulene 31 and 32,

we're going to do something we do

often on this year podcast,

which is kick everything down a notch,

turn the lights down low,

sit back, relax,

for a segment we like to call

Slow Jam, the Todd. Music relax for a segment we like to call slow jam the to talk if the mishnah teaches us when one was in the

middle of slaughtering an animal the knife fell and he lifted it and then completed the slaughter or if his

garments fell and he lifted them and then completed the slaughter or if he had honed the knife and grew weary before completing the slaughter, or if his garments fell and he lifted them and then completed the slaughter,

or if he had honed the knife and grew weary before completing the slaughter, and another came and

slaughtered the animal, if he interrupted the slaughter in one of these ways or in a different way for

an interval equivalent to the duration of an act of slaughter, the slaughter is not valid. Simple enough,

right? Shachchita or kosher

slaughtering must be performed seamlessly and without any delays. What's considered a delay,

though? Well, says the Mishnah, a delay is a period of time equivalent to the duration of the

time it takes to slaughter the animal itself. That sounds, well, kind of straightforward,

but precisely how long does that take? Well, here come the rabbis to the rescue.

The Gamar asks, what is the meaning of an interval equivalent to the duration of the act of

slaughter? Rob said, it means an interval equivalent to the duration of an act of slaughter of another

animal, not the duration required to complete the act of slaughter that was interrupted. Basically,

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