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shechita
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shechita, shechitah [ˈʃəxitɑ ˈʃxitə]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) the Jewish method of killing animals for food
[from Hebrew, literally: slaughter]
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Yet other aspects of traditional Jewish culture marked the Jews as inescapably different: the mikvah (the ritual public bath), kashrut (the Jewish dietary laws), shehitah (ritual slaughter of animals), and brit milah (ritual circumcision).
Medicine and the German Jews: A History. by Decker, Hannah S. / Journal of Social History
See Berel Berkovits, Challenges to Shehitah in Europe, 39 JUDAISM 470, 470 (1990).
Ethical eating: applying the Kosher food regulatory regime to organic ... by Gutman, Benjamin N. / Yale Law Journal
 
 
 
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