Commentary for Menachot 217:16

אמר רב יצחק בר אבדימי מאי קראה (יחזקאל מד, יב) יען אשר ישרתו אותם לפני גילוליהם והיו לבית ישראל למכשול עון על כן נשאתי ידי עליהם נאום ה' אלהים ונשאו עונם וכתיב בתריה ולא יגשו אלי לכהן לי אי עבד שירות אין שחיטה לאו שירות הוא:

he has fulfilled his obligation but he has incurred the penalty of kareth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For slaughtering a consecrated animal outside the Temple. For kareth v. Glos. He has, however, fulfilled his obligation and need not bring another burnt-offering to the Temple, for by his saying, 'I will offer it in the Temple of Onias' he implied that wheresoever the animal would be slaughtered that would be the fulfilment of his obligation. V. supra p. 672, n. 2.');">¹⁵</span> There has also been taught [a Baraitha] to the same effect: [If a man said,] 'I take upon myself to offer a burnt-offering but I will offer it in the wilderness',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which the Israelites journeyed and where the Tabernacle was erected by Moses.');">¹⁶</span>

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