Halakhah for Sotah 45:1
האומרת טמאה אני לך ושבאו לה עדים שהיא טמאה והאומרת איני שותה ושבעלה אינו רוצה להשקותה ושבעלה בא עליה בדרך
SHE WHO SAYS, 'I AM UNCLEAN TO THEE',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To her husband through infidelity. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> WHEN WITNESSES CAME [AND TESTIFIED] THAT SHE HAD MISCONDUCTED HERSELF, SHE WHO SAYS I REFUSE TO DRINK, WHEN THE HUSBAND REFUSES TO LET HER DRINK, AND WHEN HER HUSBAND COHABITED WITH HER ON THE JOURNEY [TO JERUSALEM]. FURTHERMORE, THE MEAL-OFFERINGS OF ALL WOMEN MARRIED TO PRIESTS ARE DESTROYED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Although not defiled. The law of Lev. II, 3 does not apply, v. Gemara. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Menachot 72b) that all of the meal-offerings that were offered on the altar were skimmed - and the skimming was completely incinerated on the altar, and the rest was eaten by the priests - except for the meal offering of the males of the priesthood, which ia not skimmed, as it is stated (Leviticus 6:16), "And every meal-offering of a priest shall be whole; it shall not be eaten." It comes out that the inauguratory meal-offerings and the griddled ones, and a priest that brought a sinner's meal-offering or a voluntary meal-offering - [all these offerings] were burnt on the altar and not skimmed. The meal-offering of a priestess (Sotah 23a) is skimmed and its remnants are eaten; as we say, it is specifically a priest [that is stated by the Torah], and not a priestess. And the rest of its details are elucidated in Menachot (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Sacrificial Procedure 10).
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