Commentary for Menachot 41:7

מהו דתימא מישדא בה משהו למצוה בעלמא קמ"ל:

if in the sun it will d so. But even though [it was coagulated] in the sun should we not say that once it has been set aside it must remain so?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., once it has lost the character of blood during coagulation, it cannot again assume that character when melted down, on the principle that once a thing has been rejected it can no more be fit again.');">¹¹</span> For did not R'Mani enquire of R'Johanan, 'What is the law if one ate congealed blood? ' and he replied, 'Once it has been set aside it must remain so'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And whosoever eats thereof - it being assumed that the congealed blood was not of a consecrated animal-does not commit a transgression.');">¹²</span>

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