Commandment Profile:

-132) Not to eat sacrifices disqualified by wrong intentions
Application to gentiles: Possibly required Mandated punishment for violation: Unknown Brief description: Some animal sacrifices are completely burned on the altar, while others are partly burned and partly eaten. This commandment prohibits eating a sacrifice that has been disqualified by certain improper intentions during the performance of the sacrificial procedure. There is a dispute among the rabbinical sages as to whether a gentile may bring peace-offerings (which he would eat) to the Jerusalem Temple, and also whether a gentile’s offerings have a holy status that would subject them to this rule. If so, a gentile might be bound by this commandment when he brings peace-offerings. Even less clear is whether this rule would apply to sacrifices brought by a gentile on temporary altars in other locations (see commandment +20). Category: Uncertain Commandments Biblical source(s) (Rambam): Ex. 29:33; Lev. 7:18 Biblical source (Sefer HaChinuch): Lev. 7:18 Number in Sefer HaChinuch: 144 Sources explaining relevance to gentiles: (See bibliography) Editor’s note Issue #1: May gentiles bring shlamim to the Temple, and then eat them? What about on bamos? Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Maaseh HaKorbanos 3:2-3 Gentiles may only bring ’olos to the Temple, not peace-offerings (apparently same for bamos elsewhere; thus they cannot eat any portion of any sacrifice). Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Maaseh HaKorbanos 19:16 Gentiles may offer olah sacrifices on bamos in any location (implying not chataos, ashamos, shlamim, or menachos). Talmud Bavli, Menachos 73b Dispute: R. Akiva holds that gentiles may only bring voluntary ’olos, not shlamim; R. Yossi HaGlili (the Tanna Kamma of Mishnah Menachos 6:1) maintains that gentiles may also bring shlamim, including todah offerings, to the Temple. Bartenura, Mishnah, Menachos 6:1 Halachah of this Mishnah is according to the Tanna Kamma (which is R. Yossi HaGlili). Tosafos, Talmud Bavli, Zevachim 45a (“Vehashochtan…”) From the very fact that R. Shimon discusses whether Jews are liable for piggul, nosar, and tamei for gentile sacrifices — none of which apply to ’olos, according to R. Shimon — we must conclude R. Shimon agrees gentiles may bring shlamim. Rashi, Talmud Bavli, Zevachim 45a (“Aku”m la maisu…”) R. Shimon says gentiles may bring voluntary ’olos and shlamim. Talmud Bavli, Zevachim 116b “T’nu Rabbanan”: A gentile may sacrifice on a bamah “whatever he wishes” (including shlamim?). Editor’s note Issue #2: If yes on issue #1, would gentiles be liable for piggul or nosar in either case? Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Pesulei HaMukdashin 18:24 Jews are not liable regarding piggul, nosar, or tamei with gentile sacrifices (presumably same for gentiles). Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 59a There is nothing permitted to Jews that is forbidden to gentiles (thus not liable for their own piggul, nosar, or tamei, if Jews are not). Talmud Bavli, Zevachim 45a Dispute: R. Shimon (or R. Meir, according to Mishnah, Zevachim 4:5) holds Jews are not liable for piggul, nosar, or tamei with gentile sacrifices (no Torah status of kadshei mizbeach); R. Yossi says Jews are liable for all three (they do have Torah status of kadshei mizbeach). Mishnah, Zevachim 4:5, & Bartenura thereon Halachah in this Mishnah is according to R. Yossi, i.e., that Jews are liable for piggul, nosar, and tamei with gentile sacrifices. Editor’s note Issue #3: Given the lack of rules for gentile sacrifices on bamos, would they invalidate their own offerings through piggul or nosar? Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Maaseh HaKorbanos 19:16 Although there may not be exact rules governing gentile offerings on bamos, there are proper and preferable ways to conduct such sacrifices (“…how they should sacrifice to the Name of G-d…”; thus possibly no issue of piggul or nosar). Lubavitcher Rebbe, Hisvaaduyos 5745, v. 5, pp. 3039-3041 There are no fixed halachos on how gentiles may build and use bamos, but Jews should instruct them to do so in a way of beauty to G-d, as determined by circumstances. Talmud Bavli, Zevachim 116b, & Rashi thereon Gentiles should build and use bamos in a way of beauty (leaving most specifics undefined).