Commentary for Menachot 10:14

אמר רב משום דאיכא למימר מנחת העומר תוכיח שאסורה להדיוט ומותרת לגבוה מה למנחת העומר שכן מתרת חדש

[But you might retort,] This is so of the nipping since it is only rendered forbidden [to man] by this act which renders it consecrated;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the nipping. It is with the rite of nipping that the bird becomes consecrated and so forbidden to a layman; before that it was permitted.');">¹⁶</span> the same, however, cannot be said of a trefah animal for it is not rendered forbidden by any act which renders it consecrated.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For without consecration a trefah animal is forbidden to man. And so no verse is really necessary to exclude a trefah animal from being offered as a sacrifice.');">¹⁷</span>

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