Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 39:24

טומאה כמותה מעילה כמותה

The Master stated: '[Neither shalt thou suffer the salt. to be lacking] from thy meal-offering, but not from thy blood'. But perhaps it is to be interpreted: From thy meal-offering, but not from thy sacrificial limbs!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the sacrificial limbs are not to be salted before being offered upon the altar.');">²⁷</span> - It is more reasonable to include the limbs since (mnemonic: A. Sh. B. N. T. M. A).<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These are the initial or characteristic letters of the points in common between the meal-offering and the sacrificial limbs. It will be observed t that the mnemonic contains seven letters whilst the Gemara enumerates but six points in common. Tosaf. explain that the seventh letter ( kfut standing for 'a foodstuff') was a point too obvious to be mentioned. The last letter of this mnemonic, however, is wanting in MS.M.');">²⁸</span> other things are requisite for them as for [the meal-offering], they are burnt by fire like it, they are treated outside like it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., both the sacrificial limbs and the meal-offering are offered upon the altar that is outside in the Temple Court, whereas the blood in the case of certain offerings is sprinkled inside the Temple upon the veil and between the staves. r,ub');">²⁹</span> they are subject to the law of nothar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. 'what is left over'. A person is liable if he eats of the meal-offering or of the sacrificial limbs outside the appointed time, or if he eats them whilst in a state of uncleanness. This is not so with regard to the blood.');">³⁰</span> like it, to the law of uncleanness like it and to the law of sacrile like it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The law of sacrilege (i.e., the profane appropriation or use of sacred objects) does not apply to the blood. V. Yoma 60a.');">³¹</span>

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