“May what I eat of your food be prohibited to me as is a sacrifice prohibited to me,” all conveyed in the word “Qorban.” Having said that, the person may not eat the food of the other. The reason is that the other person’s food has been declared by the individual who took the vow to be in the status of a sacrifice. We know that what makes an ordinary beast into a holy beast, subject to the laws of sacrilege and set aside for the altar, is its verbal designation as a sacrifice. Here, too, what makes