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In the context of discussing how halakha deals with responsibility for two actions, . he will deserve both a death penalty and to pay as a consequence of what he did – our Gemara quotes a Mishna from Massekhet Hullin (14a). It teaches that a person who performs shehita (ritual slaughter) of an animal on Shabbat or on Yom Kippur will receive the death penalty; nonetheless his shehita will be considered good, and the animal will be deemed kosher and can be eaten.
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