Mishnayos Chullin Perek 9 Mishnah 7

האבר והבשר המדולדלים בבהמה – the limb is detached from it, which are the flesh, and sinews and bones, or only the flesh is detached from it, but they still are stirred up in it slightly. But there is a difference between a limb from a living animal to flesh from a living animal For the limb defiles man and utensils like a carrion, but the flesh which is not a limb, is pure from nothing, as we derive from Scripture as it is written (Leviticus 11:39): “If an animal that you may eat has died,” from part of he animal, as, for example, a limb from it, but the end of the Biblical verse, “anyone who touches its carcass shall be impure [until evening],” but since it is written, “if [an animal hat you may eat] has died,” implies that we require something similar to death that does not make an exchange–substitution, excluding flesh that makes substitutions that if one tears off flesh from the animal, other flesh will rise up under it (i.e., in its place).

מטמאין טומאת אוכלין – if he thought about them to feed them to a heathen, they would be food that received defilement and [are able] to defile others, for their own defilement isn’t within them until he tears out all of them (i.e., the flesh, sinews and bones), but one receives defilement from the creeping thing and through it, they defile the others.

וצריכים הכשר – to come into water after they are detached, and afterwards they are susceptible to ritual impurity forever.

נשחטה הבהמה – they were purified from defiling more because of being carrion. But even though they are forbidden for consumption because of (Exodus 22:30): “[you must not eat] flesh torn by beasts in the field,” through carrion they became purified, for ritual slaughter does not make a limb detached from the body (see Leviticus 11:32 – and Talmud Hullin 74a – the natural death of an animal causes the hanging limb to be considered as if detached – in life-time, so that it does not come under the law of carrion – but slaughtering does not – and the dangling limb is considered as a part of the slaughtered animal – see also Talmud Hullin 129a).

הוכשרו בדמיה – to be able to receive defilement without other preparation, like the law of the beast that was slaughtered and blood came out from it when its flesh had been preparated with that same blood.

מתה הבהמה הבשר – that was dangling. צריך הכשר – to be susceptible for ritual impurity from the creeping animal if it had not been prepared once its skin was dangling. For it lacks the defilement of the carrion, for death makes the falling off of a limb detached from the body and it is considered as if that limb fell or that dangling flesh, and it is not made a carrion with it in its death, but rather, it separated from life, it and the flesh that separates from the pure life.

האבר מטמא משום אבר מן החי – for death makes the hanging limb to be considered as if detached as we have explained, and does not make a carrion with it. Therefore, it does not defile because of carrion. But there is a difference between a limb from a living animal and a limb from a carrion, for flesh that separates from the limb of a living animal does not defile, for even flesh that separates from the living does not defile all the more so, flesh that separates from the limb of a living animal, whereas flesh that separates from a limb from a carrion defiles like the flesh that separates the carrion itself.

ורבי שמעון מטהר – for it is impossible to maintain the words of Rabbi Shimon with this concluding phrase, for whichever way you turn, if death makes the hanging limb to be considered as if detached to become defiled because of the limb from a living animal, but does not make a hanging limb to be considered as if detached to be defiled because of a limb from a carrion. Therefore, by force, Rabbi Shimon refers to the opening clause [of the Mishnah] - the limb and flesh that are dangling on the animal defile food defilement in their place, but Rabbi Shimon purifies the limb all the while that hat it is from its hide in living creatures that does not defile through food defilement. But the reason of Rabbi Shimon, that stated the Biblical verse (Leviticus 11:34): “As to any food that may be eaten, [it shall become impure if it came in contact with water],” food that you can feed to heathens with permission is called fod and it defiles the defilement of food, excluding the limb and the dangling flesh that are forbidden to a heathen because of the limb of a living animal and flesh from a living animal. They are not called food and they do not make the defilement of food. But the Halakha is according to Rabbi Meir in both of these.