Commentary for Zevachim 205:20

יכול שאני מרבה שנשחטה שלא לשמה הואיל ולא עלתה לבעלים

but the skin is seized [with the sanctity of Temple Repair].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since skin could be consecrated to the Temple Repair Fund, it belongs to it now too, and not to the priests. This then is what we exclude above.');">²⁶</span> R'Jose son of R'Judah said: It excludes a proselyte's burnt-offering'. Said R'Simai B'Hilkai to Rabina: then a proselyte not a man?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely he is included in, 'any man's burnt-offering'?');">²⁷</span> - It excludes, replied he, a proselyte who died without heirs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An ordinary Jew cannot be without an heir, since he must have some relation, however distant. A proselyte, however, loses all relationship with his pre-conversion relations, and so may die without a legal heir. Hence the animal does not belong to 'any man' when it is sacrificed.');">²⁸</span> Our Rabbis taught: 'Any man's burnt-offering': I know it only of a man s burnt-offering;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the skin belongs to the priests.');">²⁹</span> how do I know it of the burnt-offering of proselytes,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sh.M. (and apparently Rashi) delete 'proselyte.' Var. lec. heathens. - Sacrifices were accepted from non-Jews.');">³⁰</span> women, and slaves? Because it says, The skin of the burnt-offering,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Burnt-offering' is a repetition in the same verse.');">³¹</span> [which is] an extension. If so, why does it say, any man's burnt-offering? [It intimates,] a burnt-offering whic has freed a man [of his obligation], and [thus] excludes one which was slaughtered [with the intention of sprinkling its blood] after time or without bounds, [teaching] that the priests have no rights in its skin. You might think that I include<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Among those whose skin does not belong to the priests. Var. lec. exclude - sc. from those whose skins belong to the priest - this is preferable.');">³²</span> one which was slaughtered under a different designation, [for] since it does not free its owner,

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