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Misva #215: The Prohibition of Notar – Eating Leftover Sacrificial Food

Misva #215: The Prohibition of Notar – Eating Leftover Sacrificial Food

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Misva #215: The Prohibition of Notar – Eating Leftover Sacrificial Food

FromSefer Hachinuch

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20 minutes
Released:
Jun 14, 2022
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The Torah assigns each sacrifice a deadline by which the sacrificial food must be eaten, and after which the food becomes “Notar” – “leftover,” and thus unfit for consumption. In the Book of Shemot (29:33), the Torah forbids eating sacrificial food which became unfit for consumption – “Lo Ye’achel Ki Kodesh Hem.” And in the Book of Vayikra (29:33), the Torah writes that eating Notar is punishable by Karet (“Ve’ochelav Avono Yisa…Ve’nichreta Ha’nefesh Ha’hi Me’ameha”). The Sefer Ha’hinuch lists the prohibition against eating Notar as the 215 th Biblical command. Certain parts of an animal sacrifice are not included in this prohibition, and eating them does not violate the prohibition of Notar. These include the animal’s skin, the liquid it emits, the small pieces of meat stuck to the skin, the sinews, the horns, the hooves, the fingernails, and (in the case of a bird sacrifice) the beak and feathers. Moreover, one who consumes blood of the sacrifice after the final time for the sacrifice’s consumption does not violate the prohibition of Notar, as blood is not included in this prohibition. However, he quite obviously violates the separate prohibition forbidding the consumption of blood. The frankincense which accompanies certain grain offerings is likewise not included in the Notar prohibition. If a gentile offers a sacrifice in the Bet Ha’mikdash, the sacrificial food is not subject to the prohibition of Notar. This prohibition, of course, applies only in the times of the Bet Ha’mikdash. It applies to both males and females. One who intentionally partakes of a Ke’zayit of Notar is, as mentioned, liable to Karet. If one transgresses this prohibition mistakenly, he must bring a Hatat (sin-offering). The Sefer Ha’hinuch writes that a person is liable to Karet even if he ate half a Ke’zayit of Notar and half a Ke’zayit of Pigul – meat of a sacrifice that the Kohen prepared with the wrong intention (intending to partake of the sacrifice after the allotted time). Normally, one who eats half a Ke’zayit of one kind of forbidden food and a half a Ke’zayit of a different kind of forbidden food is not punished, because the different prohibitions do not combine to the amount of a Ke’zayit. This case marks an exception, the Sefer Ha’hinuch writes, because the prohibitions of Notar and Pigul are both introduced in the same verse in the Book of Shemot (“Lo Ye’achel Ki Kodesh Hem”), as mentioned above. Therefore, they are treated like a single prohibition, such that half a Ke’zayit of Pigul and half a Ke’zayit of Notar combine to render one liable to Karet.
Released:
Jun 14, 2022
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