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Dec 27, 2017 at 22:27 comment added mevaqesh Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi is quoted by the Talmud (Hullin 16a) as stating that slaughter must be performed with a knife that is not attached to the ground (as opposed to a sharpened reed, for example, that is still attached to the ground). He bases this on the Torah's statement that "Abraham took a knife" (Gen. 22:6).
Feb 6, 2015 at 5:51 comment added MTL Related (what I thought your question was, before I reread it right before posting my answer): judaism.stackexchange.com/q/53555/5323
Feb 6, 2015 at 5:41 comment added MTL I think I might have something for you by way of an answer; do you intend to ask whether Yitzchak was meant to be an עולה (Olah) or something, is is your question something different?
Jun 7, 2012 at 15:16 comment added smichak @SethJ I am asking which set of Halachoth he followed for performing a Schita in a human being. Maybe, for performing a korban in Bamot (as was the way of the Avot), less restrictions apply than in the Mishkan or Beit HaMikdash.
Jun 6, 2012 at 23:01 comment added Seth J What exactly is the question? Whether or not Avraham followed Halachah, or which set of Halachoth he followed (or something else)?
Jun 6, 2012 at 22:42 answer added Menachem timeline score: 4
Jun 6, 2012 at 22:02 comment added Double AA @smichak So your asking which of Isaac's body parts were going to be offered where?
Jun 6, 2012 at 21:58 comment added smichak @DoubleAA VaYikra 1 clearly distinguishes between Olah from the cattle to Olah from sheep or goats to Olah from the birds. So obviously, how the korban is performed varies with respect to the animal being sacrificed. Furthermore, VaYikra 3 states the difference between sheep and goats when they are sacrificed as peace offerrings (זבח שלמים) - i.e. for Sheep the leg (אליה) is sacrificed as well.
Jun 6, 2012 at 20:58 comment added Double AA @YDK I'm not so sure. Anyway do we have any evidence for anything but an Olah before mattan torah?
Jun 6, 2012 at 19:55 comment added YDK @DoubleAA, I think he means how the korban was performed.
Jun 6, 2012 at 17:40 comment added rosends I can think of two points, but neither is an explicit answer: first, the akeida was before matan torah, so the avos following laws was voluntary. Thus there is no reason to expect that Avraham followed laws of shechita. Second, I recall that a medrash says that Isaac told Avraham to bind him tightly so that he would not move and invalidate the cut, so there was some sense that the killing had to be done in a particular way. The medrash which says that Isaac was actually cut says that he was so on his neck (IIRC) which would follow shechita laws for a mammal.
Jun 6, 2012 at 16:45 comment added Double AA Where in Vayikra does it explain the laws of Shechita?
Jun 6, 2012 at 16:44 comment added smichak @SethJ I brought this as an example of Hazal bringing שחיטת קדשים to the context of the binding of Isaac
Jun 6, 2012 at 16:41 comment added Seth J I don't understand what the Shofar Minhag has to do with the question.
Jun 6, 2012 at 16:35 history edited msh210
For now I'm doing this but see http://meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1178
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