[Avodah] schchita/death

[Joel Rich]

Fascinating quantum physics/observer effects from the gemara chulin 121.
Any thoughts, halachic or philosophical would be appreciated.
1 a jew shechts a non-kosher animal for a non-jew. If the jew intends that
it will be eaten by a non-jew it will be subject to tumat ochlin even
though the animal is still shuddering (i) apparently it doesn’t matter what
the non-jew was thinking (ii) if the jew wasn’t thinking then the animal is
not subject to the tumah (iii) it doesn’t matter that shechita wasn’t
really defined/activated for non-kosher animals (iv) does the jew’s intent
need to include that he is doing an act of shechita or simply that he
physically happened to kill the animal with an act that would be defined as
shechita on a kosher animal?)

2 According to chizkia a shuddering animal after shechita is no longer
living but not yet dead. Does this indeterminate status have any
implications for the human definition of death? Schrodinger’s cat?

bsorot tovot

joel rich
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