Commentary for Menachot 202:24

והא פיגל בין בקדשי קדשים בין בקדשים קלים מצוה למיזרקיה

The Red Cow can rightly be regarded as ready to be redeemed, for if another cow finer than this one is obtainable, it is a meritorious act to redeem it; but as regards meal-offerings, is there any meritorious act to redeem [what has been consecrated for a meal-offering]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of course not. Therefore it is not regarded as already redeemed.');">³²</span> But in the case where [a portion of the sacrifice] had remained overnight before the sprinkling [of the blood], there was a duty to sprinkle the blood, and if one so desired one could have sprinkled it, nevertheless the [Baraitha] states that it does not convey food-uncleanness!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Obviously we do not accept the principle that whatever is in the condition ready to be sprinkled is considered as already sprinkled.');">³³</span> - We must assume that there was no time left during the day for the sprinkling [of the blood].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the sacrifice was slaughtered almost at sunset, so that the blood could not possibly have been sprinkled in the proper time; accordingly the flesh was never permitted as food.');">³⁴</span> Then what would be the position where there was sufficient time left in the day [for the sprinkling]? It would convey food-uncleanness! If so, instead of teaching, 'If [it remained overnight] after the sprinkling [of the blood] it conveys food-uncleanness', [the Tanna] should have drawn a distinction in the very case itself<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., where it had remained overnight before the sprinkling.');">³⁵</span> in the following terms: This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the sacrificial portion which remained overnight does not convey food-uncleanness.');">³⁶</span> applies only where no time was left during the day [for the sprinkling of the blood], but if there was sufficient time left i the day [for the sprinkling] it conveys food-uncleanness!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And it goes without saying that if it remained overnight after the sprinkling it conveys food-uncleanness.');">³⁷</span> - That is just what [the Tanna] meant to teach: If [the portion of the sacrifice] had remained overnight before [the blood] was ready for the sprinkling,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., there was no time left in the day for the sprinkling.');">³⁸</span> it does not convey food-uncleanness; but if after [the blood] was ready for the sprinkling, it conveys food-uncleanness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As there was time left in the day for the sprinkling it is regarded as already sprinkled; accordingly the flesh is considered as having been in the permitted state, and therefore conveys food-uncleanness.');">³⁹</span> But in the case where an offering, either of the most holy or of the less holy kind, had been made piggul, there was a duty to sprinkle [the blood in the proper manner],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., free from any intention that makes the offering piggul.');">⁴⁰</span>

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