Cohn, Jacob. The Royal Table - VWC: Faculty/Staff Web

CHAPTER XI
MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS
In the preceding chapters we have outlined practically
all the types of prohibited foods which must1 be avoided
in daily life. A large class of forbidden foods is of such a
nature as makes their occurence nowadays an impossibi-
lity. Sacrificial prohibitions are the most common in this
class. Four major types may be mentioned: sacrifices
which may never be eaten, but must be burnt on the altar,
such as the burnt-offerings of the first chapter of Leviticus;
sacrifices which may be eaten only within specified bounded
areas, such as a peace or thank-offering; sacrifices which
were originally meant to be eaten but were disqualified
because of an intent at the time of killing to eat them past
the specified time or out of the specified area allowed for
their consumption (StiPfi); and sacrifices which were allowed
to remain longer after their slaughter than the law allows,
which must be burned rather than eaten (nmj)* While
these laws have a great academic interest, they are also
of practical concern to us, for much that we know about
common ocurrences in our own food laws is indirectly
learned from the sources which deal with sacrificial pro-
cedure. For example, the law of the annulment by sixty
volumes is derived from the procedure of cooking the ram
of the Nazirite sacrifice, and the laws of homogeneous mix-
tures are partly derived from the procedure of the Day of
Atonement sacrifice. 1
1 Hullin 98a, b; Zevachim 79b.
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