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Shulchan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 12
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Yoreh De'ah Siman 12 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 2 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
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<b>שלא לשחוט בתוך גומא. ובו ב' סעיפים:</b><br> אין שוחטין לתוך הגומא אפילו בבית ואם לא היה רוצה ללכלך ביתו בדם עושה מקום מדרון חוץ לגומא ושוחט שם והדם שותת ויורד לגומא ובשוק לא יעשה כן:
Seif 1 We don’t slaughter into a basin, even in a house; and if you will don’t want dirty your house with blood, make a place with a slope to the basin and slaughter there, and then the blood of the slaughter will flow in the basin; and in a market this is not done.
י"א שאם שחט בגומא בשוק אסור לאכול משחיטתו עד שיבדקו אחריו. שמא אפיקורס הוא (רמב"ם פ"ב מה"ש ועיטור) ויש אומרים שמותר בדיעבד ואין צריך בדיקה (רשב"א ומרדכי בשם רא"מ) : הגה ובזמן הזה דאין דרך עובדי כוכבים בכך יש להתיר בדיעבד (א"ז ובשחיטות הר"מ ממדלינגן):
Seif 2 There are those who say that if you slaughter in a basin in the market, it is forbidden to eat what he (the person) slaughters until afterwards we check if he is a heretic (or not). There are those who say that it is permitted after the fact without checking (the character of) the slaughterer.
English translation: Asher Meza (without commentary) · unknown