Someone on the Internets asked how to kill the Passover lamb without breaking any bones. Here is my reply. I hope it helps someone out there who is looking for ways to please our Creator through obedience to his Son.
Tomorrow is day ten of the first month, so pick your lamb, an unblemished male lamb of the first year tomorrow.
From: Jammel
Hi friend my name is Jammel and I just wanted to know where I can get a pesach lamb according to the Torah!!! I really want to keep this festival!!!
Well I can get a goat or a lamb but the problem is knowing how to properly kill the animal without any broken bones.
From: Ted
You cut the throat, just underneath the adams apple. Male sheep have one, female ewes do not. Have a sharp knife. A filet or fishing knife is good. It will slice through really easily. Just one slice. Catch the blood in a basin, use it to put on your doorposts and lintel. Put salt in the blood so it doesn't turn into jello right away. Wait two or three minutes before you skin it, so all the twitching can stop and the blood can exit.
The sheep is dead within 5 seconds, but the tremors can take up to 2 minutes to stop, if the sheep was calm. If you sever the spinal nerve by cutting too much, or if the sheep is stressed before it dies, the twitching might take up to 15 minutes to stop. So keep the sheep nice and calm. Tie it down and kill it on the ground or on a rock that hasn't been hewn by a human hand or tool.
Leave the guts in and the hooves on, but skin the lamb. Roast it on a barbecue or something. Should take a minimum of 3 hours. Turn it every fifteen minutes. You can wrap it in chicken wire if you like, to keep it from falling apart while it cooks.
Don't let the lamb eat anything for the four days before you kill it. This should clean out the guts. Make sure it has water to drink though.
Then enjoy your meal with wine and unleavened bread. Let me know how it goes! If you have any more questions, feel free to phone me at 604-435-5787.
Ted