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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #94 of 613

That we not incinerate the entrails of animals with blemishes

שלא להקטיר אימורי בעלי מומין

Parashat Emor אמור · Sefer HaChinuch #290

The verse · Vayikra 22:22

עַוֶּרֶת אוֹ שָׁבוּר אוֹ־חָרוּץ אוֹ־יַבֶּלֶת אוֹ גָרָב אוֹ יַלֶּפֶת לֹא־תַקְרִיבוּ אֵלֶּה לַה׳ וְאִשֶּׁה לֹא־תִתְּנוּ מֵהֶם עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ לַה׳

“Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a growth, or scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these to the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to the Lord.”

Read Vayikra 22:22 in context on Sefaria

The Rambam’s words

Not to burn the sacrificial portions of animals with disqualifying physical blemishes [as sacrifices on the altar], as [Leviticus 22:22] states: "Do not make a fire offering of them."

שלא להקטיר אימורי בעלי מומין, שנאמר "ואישה, לא תיתנו מהם" (ויקרא כב,כב).

Who & when

“However we should not count this prohibition with those that are practiced today; as due to our iniquities, we do not have an altar upon which to incinerate.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Things Forbidden on the Altar הלכות איסורי המזבח

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