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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora

131 - EATING NOTAHR

According to Scriptural Law, whenever it is laid down that an offering must be consumed during the day of slaughtering and the following night (as for example in the case of the sin offering, guilt offering, thanksgiving offering, etc.), the duty may be performed until dawn on the next morning; but “in order to keep a man far from transgression” – a basic consideration in Rabbinic law – the sages ordained that the time should extend only until midnight.*

This applies also to the Passover offering, which according to Scriptural law must be consumed during the first night of Passover, but in order to guard man from transgression the sages ordained that it could be eaten only until midnight.* For this reason the eating of the last piece of Matzah (called the afikoman) at the Seder table, which commemorates the Passover offering, must take place before midnight.**

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