Negative Commandment 120 (Digest)
Leaving Sacrificial Meat Uneaten
"You shall leave none of it until the morning"—Leviticus 22:30.
It is forbidden to leave over sacrificial meat past the deadline when it may be eaten.
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> And the 120th prohibition is that we are forbidden from leaving over any part of the Thanksgiving offering (todah) until the morning [of the next day].
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement,;) "[It must be eaten on the same day] with nothing left over until the [next] morning." From this offering we derive the principle for the other offerings: that whatever remains after the time designated for their consumption becomes nosar.;) One then is obligated to burn it, since this is a lav she'nitak l'aseh,;) and burning it is a positive commandment, as we explained in Positive Commandment 91.
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> Footnotes
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> Lev. 22:30.
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> See N131.
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> A prohibition that has a corresponding positive commandment to rectify the prohibited act.