If the place that Hashem your God will choose to put His Name there is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock that Hashem has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates according to all the desire of your soul.
English: “And you shall slaughter” — From where do we know that shechitah is performed at the neck? Rav Yeimar said: Because the verse says “and you shall slaughter” — from the place where it flows, cut it.
On the daf / in context: The language of zevichah is linked to the place from which the blood flows, establishing the neck as the required site of the cut.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse (Sifrei / Bavli) — the location of the shechitah cut.
What Is Learned
Shechitah must be performed at the neck, the place from which the blood flows.