Commentary for Zevachim 9:4

א"ל מודינא לך בעולה דאתיא לאחר מיתה אשם דלא אתי לאחר מיתה מנלן

- Said R'Eleazar to him: We find that those [sacrifices] which come after the death [of their owners] are valid, yet they are not accepted.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e. , they do not propitiate.');">⁷</span> For we learnt: If a woman brought her sin-offering [after childbirth] and then died, her heirs must bring her burnt-offering; [if she brought] her burnt-offering, her heirs do not bring her sin-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because in the latter case, it is a sin-offering whose owner died (the passage treats of the case where she dedicated both animals before her death) before it was offered, and it is a traditional law that such is not sacrificed but left to die. - Yet the burnt-offering is offered, though no propitiation is required on behalf of a dead woman. The present case is similar.');">⁸</span>

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