Chullin

only from unconsecrated animals,1 [must be sacrificed] by day, and [all the services in connection therewith must be performed] with the [priest's] right hand, so, too, the burnt-offering of a bird must be brought only from unconsecrated birds, must be sacrificed by day, and, [all the services in connection therewith must be performed] with the [priest's] right hand. But then it should follow that just as in the former case [one has only to cut] the greater portion of both organs,2 so in the latter case [one has only to nip off] the greater portion of both organs? There is, therefore, another text which reads: And he shall nip off . . . and he shall burn it,3 from which one can draw the following conclusion: as for the purposes of burning the head must be separate from the body,4 so, too, in nipping the head shall be made separate from the body.5 R. Ishmael says: ‘According to the ordinance’ means, according to the ordinance prescribed for the sin-offering of a bird; thus, as the nipping of the head of the sin-offering of a bird must be done close to the back of the neck, so, too’ the nipping of the head of the burnt-offering of a bird must be done close to the back of the neck.6 But then it should follow, should it not, that as in the former case one must nip through only one organ without severing the other,7 so in the latter case one must nip through only one organ without severing the other? It is, therefore, written: And he shall bring it near.8 R. Eleazar son of R. Simeon says: ‘According to the ordinance’ means, according to the ordinance of the sin-offering of a bird; thus, as in the latter case two separate burnings, one of the head of the bird and the other of the body. repeatedly referred to previously as the view of the Rabbis. where the nipping must be done. Therefore the priest is not allowed to nip off any more than is necessary to render the bird valid i.e., one organ.