Simla Hadasha

The Simla Chadasha is a compendium on the Jewish laws of ritual slaughter. It was written by Rabbi Alexander Sender Shorr in the 18th century. Its use has become so ubiquitious that it has replaced the Shulkhan Arukh as the definitive work on ritual slaughter. Any candidate who wishes to become a ritual slaughterer is no longer tested by Rabbis on the laws found in the Shulkhan Arukh - they are tested instead on their knowledge of the Simla Chadasha.

Muslims as well as Jews have a dietary code where they are proscribed from eating meat that was not ritually slaughtered by either a fellow Muslim or a Jew.