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Bechoros 5:6-6:1

Bechoros 5:6

Let’s say that a person slaughters a firstborn animal and sells it, and it is subsequently discovered that he hadn’t shown the animal to an expert for evaluation. What the customers ate, they ate, and he must refund their money (as a penalty for selling them the animal when he shouldn’t have). What they haven’t eaten must be buried and he must refund their money. Similarly, if a person slaughtered a cow and sold it, after which it’s discovered that it was a treifa, what the buyers ate, they ate, and he must refund their money; the meat they didn’t eat must be returned to the seller and he must refund their money. If the buyers re-sold the cow to non-Jews or fed it to dogs, they pay the seller the price of treif meat.

Bechoros 6:1

A firstborn animal may be slaughtered because of the following blemishes: if an ear is defective because of its cartilage but not because of its skin; if it was slit even though no piece of it is missing; if it has a hole as large as a vicia seed, or if it has dried up to the extent that it doesn’t emit a drop of blood when pierced. Rabbi Yosi ben Meshulam says that it must be so dry that it would crumble if handled.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz