Commentary for Menachot 9:7

ומחוסרי כפרה (זב וזבה יולדת ומצורע)

it is brought by those that lack atonement,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., those who had suffered uncleanness, viz., a man or woman that had an issue, a woman after childbirth, and a leper, and who had done all that was necessary for their purification except to present their offering. The offering in each case was a bird-offering.');">⁹</span> and an exception to the general prohibition is made for consecrated birds;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Generally to nip off the head of a bird would render the whole bird nebelah, I.e. carrion, and forbidden to be eaten. Nevertheless this was the prescribed method for 'killing bird-offerings, and the flesh was eaten by the priests.');">¹⁰</span>

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