Negative Commandment 139 (Digest)
Eating from Sacrifices whose Blood was Sprinkled in the Sanctuary
"And any sin offering whose blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting, to make atonement in the holy place, shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt in fire"—Leviticus 6:23.
It is forbidden for a priest to consume of the flesh of any Sin Offering whose blood was sprinkled in the sanctuary.
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> And the 139th prohibition is that kohanim are forbidden from eating meat from any sin-offering whose blood is sprinkled inside ;)].
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> The source of this prohibition is G‑d's statement;) (exalted be He), "Any sin-offering whose blood is brought into the ohel moed to make atonement in the Sanctuary may not be eaten; it must be burned in fire."
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> One who does eat [from this meat] is punished by lashes.
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> In the words of the Sifra: "The verse, 'it may not be eaten; it must be burned in fire' teaches you that there is a prohibition to eat anything the Torah requires you to burn.";)
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> I.e., on the golden altar; on the curtain; and for the Yom Kippur sacrifices also between the staves of the Ark. See Lev. 4:1-21. 16:27. Num. 15:24.
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> Lev. 6:23.
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> Therefore, these sin-offerings, which must be burned, may not be eaten. From this passage of the Sifra, we see that this law counts as a prohibition.
Negative Commandment 112 (Digest)
Decapitating the Fowl Sin Offering
"He shall pinch off its head opposite its nape, but shall not separate"—Leviticus 5:8.
In the course of melikah[the "slaughtering" of bird sacrifices, done with the priest's fingernail], it is forbidden for the priest to totally remove the bird's head from its body.
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> And the 112th prohibition is that when performing melikah;) on a bird brought as a sin-offering, we are forbidden from completely severing its head [from its body].
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> The source of this prohibition is G‑d's statement;) (exalted be He), "He shall gouge through its neck from the back without severing [the head from the body]."
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> If he does sever the head, the offering is invalid.
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> The details of this mitzvah are explained in the 6th chapter of tractate Zevachim.
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> Instead of using a knife, the kohen cuts through the back of the bird's neck with his fingernail. He must cut at least the windpipe or the foodpipe, and can even cut both, but he must leave the head attached to the body by the skin of the neck.
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Positive Commandment 65 (Digest)
Procedure of the Guilt Offering
"This is the law of the guilt-offering"—Leviticus 7:1.
When offering an Asham (guilt) offering, we are commanded to follow the applicable procedure outlined in the Torah—regarding its offering and the parts of the animal that are burnt on the altar and the parts that are consumed [by the priests].
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> And the 65th mitzvah is that we are commanded to bring a guilt-offering in the manner described in the book of Leviticus, in [the passage beginning with] G‑d's statement;) (exalted be He), "This is the law of the guilt-offering..."
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> Scripture explains how it is offered, which parts of the animal are burned, and which parts are eaten.;)
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