<b>And you say, "I shall eat meat" (Deuteronomy 12:20):</b> Rabbi Eliezer beRabbi Yehoshua said, "From here you learn that a man should not acquire a <i>litra</i> of meat until he consults with his household." See what is [the difference] between the Israel and the [other] nations of the world. When Israel do not [ritually] slaughter, they do not eat [meat]. But the nations of the world stab and eat. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Israel, "By your life, in the world to come, you will eat from those [animals] that are not slaughtered, from the behemoths and the Leviathan, about which it is written, 'One [scale] touches the other; not even a breath can enter between them.'"