The Torah in Parashat Re’eh (Debarim 12:26) commands, “Rak Kodoshecha Asher Yiheyu Lecha U’ndarecha, Tisa U’bata El Ha’makom Asher Yibhar Hashem” – “But your consecrated items which you have, and your pledges, you must carry and bring to the site which G-d shall choose.” This has been understood as referring to animals which were consecrated in Hutz La’aretz, outside the Land of Israel, and the Torah commands bringing them to the Bet Ha’mikdash in Jerusalem and offering them there as sacrifices. Although the Torah had already issued a general command to bring all sacrifices to the Bet Ha’mikdash, the Torah here adds a special command relevant to animals which had been consecrated outside the Land of Israel. Since bringing the animal to Jerusalem entails a great deal of time and effort, the Torah issued an additional command in order to motivate a person who consecrated an animal abroad to bring the animal to the Bet Ha’mikdash despite the trouble involved. The Sefer Ha’hinuch here follows the Rambam’s view, that the Torah adds a second command to bring animals consecrated in the Diaspora to the Bet Ha’mikdash, beyond the general command to offer all sacrifices specifically in the Bet Ha’mikdash. The Ramban disagrees with the Rambam, and maintains that there is only a single Misva requiring bringing consecrated animals to be offered in the Bet Ha’mikdash, and this Misva includes animals consecrated in Eretz Yisrael and those consecrated outside the land. In discussing this Misva, the Sefer Ha’hinuch, based on the Rambam, mentions that it applies to all animals that were consecrated as any type of sacrifice – whether as a Hatat, an Asham, an Ola, or a Shelamim. Rav Yosef Karo (author of the Shulhan Aruch, 1488-1575), in his Kessef Mishneh commentary to the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah (in Hilchot Ma’aseh Ha’korbanot, chapter 18), raises the question of why the Rambam does not mention also bird sacrifices. Birds can be brought as a Hatat and an Ola, and thus, seemingly, they should be included in this Misva. Some explain that indeed, the Rambam and Sefer Ha’hinuch do not exclude birds from this command, but they did not mention birds in this context because, very simply, people would not, as a practical matter, consecrate birds as sacrifices outside the Land of Israel. Even in Eretz Yisrael, people did not consecrate birds and then bring them as sacrifices. They would instead consecrate money for this purpose, and the money was then used to purchase birds in Jerusalem to be offered as sacrifices. Certainly, then, it was not common for people outside the land to consecrate birds which they would then need to bring to Jerusalem. This Misva is binding upon both men and women, and applies during the times of the Bet Ha’mikdash.