The Gemara continues to piece apart what is known about a liability of a son who steals and slaughters his father's ox whether that is before or after his father dies. If the slaughter takes place after his father has died, the father no longer owns the animal. Who would receive the four or fivefold payment? What if this act of slaughter was not completed at one time? We know that slaughter is only called slaughter at its completion. This gruesome example of a legal conundrum is quite disturbing to those of us who are tremendously removed from the act of animal slaughter. And from what I have read, shechita is to be done quickly or else the animal cannot be used; it is not a halachically proper slaughter.
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