Bava Kamma 72B

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As, if it enters your mind that it is prohibited by Torah law the Mishnah here would be difficult, for as soon as he slaughtered the animal a bit, at the very start of the act of slaughter, he has prohibited the animal, with regard to deriving benefit, as a non-sacred animal slaughtered in the Temp

Rav Aḥa, son of Rava, said to Rav Ḥavivi: It is possible to explain the Mishnah even according to the opinion that the halakhic ramifications of slaughtering are in effect throughout the slaughter, and even if one maintains that it is prohibited by Torah law to benefit from a non-sacred animal slaug

Rav Huna said to Rav Ashi: But if you are correct, the Mishnah is difficult. Rav Ashi said to Rav Huna: This is what Rav Gamda said in the name of Rava: When does the Mishnah state that the thief is obligated to pay the fourfold or fivefold payment? It is in a case where the thief slaughtered part

Mishnah: If one stole an ox or a sheep, as established based on the testimony of two witnesses, and he subsequently slaughtered the animal or sold it, also based on the testimony of the same witnesses, and these witnesses were found to be conspiring witnesses, these witnesses pay everything, i.e.,

With regard to one who stole an ox or a sheep, as established based on the testimony of two witnesses, and he subsequently slaughtered the animal or sold it, based on the testimony of two other witnesses, if both these witnesses and those witnesses were found to be conspiring witnesses, the first se