Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah · Siman 2

Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah 2 — English translation

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1. 1The shechita of a non-jew, (the animal slaughtered has the status of a) nevilah (animal which was not shechted or shechted improperly). Even if he (the non-Jew) was a minor and even if the non-jew does not worship idols. Rema: {For example, a legal resident (a non Jew who does not worship idols and lives among Jews)} and even if others watch him.
2. 2If a wanton sinner who eats a nevilah* and deliberately (slaughters), if a Jew first checks the knife that he is given, only then are we allowed to eat from what he slaughtered even if he slaughters alone (only) if he knows the laws of slaughter. However if the knife is not checked from the beginning, it is forbidden to eat what he slaughtered until we check the knife at the end. And if it’s not given to him in the beginning in order to slaughter, even if a trustworthy person stood over him to assist, without checking the knife from the beginning, we don’t rely that the knife was fit to slaughter.(even if you plan to check it at the end)
3. 3A wanton sinner * who intends to slaughter, even if he swears that he slaughtered with a good knife he is not believed....(*carcass of a kosher animal not killed in accordance with Jewish law and therefore forbidden for consumption.**a ”mumar leteiavon” does not mean an apostate, it means a wanton sinner who sins out of lust or desire, not out of heresy)
4. 4Seif 4 If a wanton sinner slaughters alone, and he has with him a proper knife and a knife that is not proper. And then says that he slaughtered with the correct knife, we trust them.And even if we find meat in his hand, if there are experts in the city, we accept his slaughter (if the experts say) an expert slaughtered this.
5. 5Seif 5 An (true) apostate*, even against one Jewish law, or if he is a Jew who worships foreign gods or who publicly desecrates the sabbath, or an apostate against all of torah apart from these two they have the status of non Jews *(Cuthean was added by the censors).*a Mumar Lehachis is someone who sins (in heresy) out of anger to G-d.
6. 6Seif 6 An apostate who continues committing the same transgression, we don’t need to check his knife, according to the Rambam it needs to be checked, specifically if he is an apostate because of a transgression, however if he is an invalidated witness by a transgression that make up the torahs list of transgressions, you don’t need to check the knife, even according to the Rambam.
7. 7Seif 7 If he is an apostate because of his foreskin, his status is like one who transgresses a specific law. And if he wasn't circumcised due to a fear of death during the circumcision, Indeed he is like the rest of the kosher Jews.*a mumar le'aveirah is worse than pasul le'edut.
8. 8Seif 8 A Samaritan nowadays has the status of an Idol Worshiper.
9. 9Seif 9 Saducees and Baiythiates (followers of Baiytus) what they slaughter is forbidden, however if they slaughter and an expert stood over them guiding them and they also checked the knife. (it is allowed).
10. 10Seif 10 If an invalidated person starts to slaughter and when he finishes he is no longer invalidated, or if someone begins to slaughter as a kosher Jew and by the end of the slaughter has become and invalidated person. What do we tell them? (We say)From the beginning you were invalidated with respect to an issue, this makes what you slaughtered a nevilah, for example if the gullet and the majority of the trachea (were cut when he found out it is not allowed), however if from the beginning someone is invalidated and half of the Trachea (is already cut) and he finished as a kosher jew, it is permissible.
11. 11Seif 11 If a kosher Jew and an invalidated slaughterer simultaneously slaughter, it is not allowed to be consumed.We don’t need to say anything if his (The Kosher Jew’s) hand is on the knife.