Simla Chadasha - Contents

Contents

Chapters one through five deal with the laws of the ritual slaughterer himself and his intentions. Chapters six through ten deal with the laws of the slaughtering knife. Chapters eleven and twelve deal with the place and time of ritual slaughter. Chapters thirteen through seventeen deal with the animal that was slaughtered. Chapters eighteen through twenty five deal with the procedure of slaughter. Chapters twenty six through twenty eight deal with various other laws.

The Simla Chadasha then skips to the section of Shulchan Aruch that deals with defects in the lungs and proceeds with a restatements of chapters thirty-five through thirty nine.

It is of great interest to note that the Simla Chadasha has only been received universally by Hasidic and Ashkenazic Jewry. The Sephardic world has not embraced its use. Shechita historians have pointed out two possible reasons for this difference. The first reason is that the author of the Simla Chadasha has taken an extremely strong stand against the author of the Pri Chadash, a Sephardic luminary, stating that the work is filled with errors in that the author had only spent two years writing it. The second reason is that the Simla Chadasha is a proponent of the idea of peeling the Sirchos (lung adhesions). This is sheer anathema in the eyes of Sephardic codifiers. Perhaps the confluence of both reasons was responsible for the non-acceptance of the Simla Chadasha in the Sephardic world.