Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Sotah 45:9

הניחא לר"א דאית ליה האי סברא אלא לרבנן דלית להו האי סברא מא"ל דעבדי להו כר"א בר"ש דתניא רבי אלעזר בר"ש אומר הקומץ קרב בעצמו והשירים מתפזרים על בית הדשן

BUT A WOMAN IS NOT SOLD FOR HER THEFT. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. Our Rabbis taught: The meal-offerings of all women who had married into the priesthood are to be destroyed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And not eaten by the priests. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> How is this? In the case of the daughter of a priest, Levite or Israelite who had married a priest, her meal-offering is not eaten because he has a share in it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The flour belongs to him, and so the offering in fact comes under the law of Lev. VI, 16. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> nor is it treated as a holocaust<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is the way the meal-offering of a priest is treated ');"><sup>18</sup></span> because she<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who is a non-priest. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> has a share in it; but the handful is offered separately and the remainder separately. But there is to be applied here the rule that whatever sacrifice has a portion thereof treated as 'offerings made by fire' comes under the law of ye shall not burn!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. II, 11. In this verse the word mimmennu 'of it' appears to be superfluous, and the deduction is drawn that the parts of a sacrifice which are designated as not to be burnt upon the altar must not be burnt upon it. How, then, can it be stated that 'the remainder' is to be burnt separately? ');"><sup>20</sup></span> — R. Judah, son of R. Simeon b. Pazi said: They are burnt as fuel,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Upon the altar but not as part of the sacrifice. ');"><sup>21</sup></span> in accordance with the statement of R. Eliezer; for it has been taught: R. Eliezer says: For a sweet savour<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 12. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> thou mayest not bring it [upon the altar] but thou mayest bring it as fuel. This is right for R. Eliezer who holds this opinion; but what is there to say as regards the Rabbis who do not hold this opinion? — [They declare that] it is to be treated according to the view of R. Eleazar b. Simeon; for it has been taught: R. Eleazar b. Simeon says: The handful<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of a meal-offering for a sin brought by a priest. Lev. VI, 16 speaks of a freewill-offering. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> is offered separately and the remainder is scattered upon the place of the ashes.

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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