Halakhah for Sotah 45:3
מה בין כהן לכהנת מנחת כהנת נאכלת ומנחת כהן אינה נאכלת כהנת מתחללת וכהן אין מתחלל
A PRIEST'S DAUGHTER MAY BECOME DECLASSED,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By contracting an illegal marriage. Even after divorce or in widowhood she loses her privileges. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> BUT A PRIEST DOES NOT BECOME DECLASSED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Permanently by contracting an illegal marriage. After divorce or his wife's death he regains his privileges. ');"><sup>6</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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