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Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak maintains that if an animal quivered even at the beginning of the Shechitah, the Shechitah is valid. He proves this from the Mishnah (37a) that states that when an animal is slaughtered at night, it may be eaten as long as it has signs of "Zinuk." If movement is required at the end of the Shechitah in order for the animal to be permitted, then how can signs of Zinuk permit the animal? Perhaps the Zinuk occurred at the beginning of the Shechitah and not at the end! It must be that the animal is permitted even when the Zinuk occurred at the beginning of the Shechitah
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