Tzav - 2nd Portion

Join me in learning Kish for Monday Pares. Yesterday's Torah reading, we learned about the obligation of cleaning off the altar of its ashes, as well as learning about the meal offerings that it was not allowed to become and its holiness that it had to be eaten only in the courtyard of the holy temple. Today we continue with the laws pertaining to a meal offering and the obligatory offerings that the kanim had to bring. And God spoke to Moses saying verse 13. This is the sacrifice the offering of Aaron and his descendants that they will bring to God on the day of their being anointed. It will be a tenth one/tenth of an apha of fine flour as a tummy as a perpetual offering. They would bring half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. What kind of offering? What are we referring to? Rashi says anytime a cohen was inaugurated to work he would then bring a uh an a a meal offering which was of the value of one/tenth of an apham the high priest every single day he had to bring a meal offering it says because it says he would have to bring a meal offering and then it would says the anointed cohen will only have to bring in the day and the afternoon. That means a regular CO I mean that means the Coen God the high priest he would have to bring every single day a meal offering as well. Torah now tells us what more details into this meal offering. How would they make this meal offering? It must be made in oil in a frying pan. It should be made then afterwards would be dropped into hot water and it would be scolded by hot scalded by hot water to Vienna that's the way you should bring it to will then make this after you scold it and then you bake it into the oven and then you break it up into different pieces as we're see explains how it was broken as a pleasing offering to Hashem the word means You would drop it into the hot water and it would cook it and boil it right away quickly. Means was baked many times after you threw it into the water. You then put it into the oven and then afterwards you would boil it. So it had over here three things. Number one, you boiled it in water. Number two, that it was baked in an oven. And number three, that it was fried in a pan means that you got to break it up into pieces. Verse 15, who was then anointed from his sons after him sons will do this as well. This is an eternal allotment. All of it must be burned up. They did not get to enjoy any of this. As we mentioned previously, the ofen was consuming was all consumed on the altar of meaning even the cohen is anointed. That means that from his children one gets appointed as well. This meal offering is not like the one of the Israelite that the only the fistful goes onto the altar and the leftovers go to the cohen. But over here all of it gets burnt on the altar. Any kind of meal offering of a cohen all of it gets even the ones that they are not obligated to bring even the ones of a donation get completely consumed on the altar. Verse 16. And all grain offerings brought by a priest must be holy and must be completely burned up. No part of it no part of it may be eaten means all of it goes to God. verse 17 and God spoke to Moshe saying now we're going back to what we started with the sin offering in the previous Torah reading as well. These are the laws pertaining to sin offering the place where the place where you slaughter the ascent offering the sin offering will be slaughtered as well in front of God. It is very holy. Verse the who is the one that's fit to bring up the sin offering he will eat will eat in the holy place what's the holy place in the tent in the courtyard of the tent of meeting the one who does the work that he becomes now a sin offering because the co that's doing it meaning it doesn't mean necessarily the one that actually did the work is the one that has to eat it. It means he's the one that's fit for working. This excludes a person who may have been impure while they were sprinkling the blood that he cannot have. He's not entitled to any of the meat of that sacrifice. Why? Because he was not able to sprinkle the blood. That means he was not worthy of working of actually bringing that sacrifice. Therefore, he's not entitled to any part of the sacrifice. It can be that you're prohibiting any other coin to eat it because we previously said that every male of the coin is allowed to eat and enjoy the the sacrifice. Therefore, when he says over here only the cohen who sprinkles the blood means a cohen who's fit and able to to sprinkle the blood. Verse 20. Whoever touches his flesh becomes holy. And if somebody sprinkles from the blood and because of that the blood gets on his clothing, they should wash it off in a holy place. anything any food item that may touch the flesh of the sin offering while it's still hot or the person may swallow anything from it and therefore he has in it the the taste of fleshik he becomes just as holy the food that touches it becomes just as holy and ifs if the offering is possible will also become unfit and not allowed to be eaten the however if it was kosher you will have to eat it with all the stringencies that are required with eating The sin offering for example that has to be eaten the courtyard of the tent of meeting. You can't leave it overnight and as well as all the other prohibitions. What happens if some blood got onto his clothing? The meaning not intentionally something happened that it got on his blood. He has to make sure to wash off the blood of that sprinkling that got himself dirty. not take it home and put it in his washing machine. But in the actual in the actual courtyard, he has to wash off the blood from his garment that he be sprinkled with. Verse 21. So too will apply with an earn we vessel in which it was cooked. If the animal if the sacrifice was cooked in it would have to be broken was cooked in a copper was cooked. All you have to do is wash it out. You expune it by you purge it by rinsing it with uh first purging it in boiling water and then rinsing it in cold water. Rashi why do you have to break this earth item? Because now the taste of the flesh was absorbed into this item. And then after tomorrow, you still have an absorption of the meat of a sacrifice that's in here. And it's already after the time when the sacrifice is allowed to be eaten. So therefore, you have to break the vessel. This would apply to any of the holy items of the sacrifices that once the taste gets absorbed into the vessel, the vessel itself becomes prohibited as well. However, when it comes to a metal vessel, which that you can purge the taste from, that he washes off well first what he does is he has to purge it from the the the taste of it in hot water then afterwards when it comes to an earthenware vessel of the verse tells us that you can never purge a taste from an earnware vessel and that's why until today when it comes to the laws of kosher an earnware vessel cannot be koshered however a metal vessel we first um boil boil it in hot water and afterwards put it in cold water as well. Verse 22, every male amongst the eat from the sacrifice is considered very holy. What does it teach us? This is back that Rashi is proving his point when it said that the coin sprinkles it. He does not have to be the only one can eat it, but as long as you're able to because as it says over here, all maleim can eat it. And therefore, when it said before, the one who sprinkles it was not to exclude all the other was only to exclude one who does not have the ability to sprinkle because he may be impure. Verse 23, any sin offering that that some of its blood may have mistakenly brought into the tent of meeting into the tent of meeting to atone in the holiness automatically. Now that that uh that animal renders that animal something that cannot be eaten and it has to be burnt in a fire that if mistakenly a person brought in the blood from the external that means it was supposed to be on the outside altar and he brought the blood inside not a valid animal and it has to be burnt All comes to include any kind of uh animal whether it's something which is a high level of holiness or not the highest level both of these cases if the blood is brought inside and sprinkled on the inner altar it then it makes it renders the animal invalid chapter 7 verse one status this is the laws pertaining the guilt offering they carry carry a superior holiness meaning when it's so holy that it has to be brought up as a sacrifice. You cannot switch it off for a different animal. Verse two, the same place that they would bring and sacrifice the scent offering. That's where they would slaughter the guilt offering. And its blood will then be sprinkled and circled by the altar. Why does it say multiple like in plural telling us? This is telling us over here and it's telling us in the other places where it was done in the north of the altar whatever may be that the Torah is telling us that even by the ascent offering when a person brings the communal offering it was also done in the north of the altar. Verse three and he has to bring all its fats with it the tail and also to the fat that's covering the inards all of it was brought up on the altar. being that up until now he has never yet detailed the different limbs of the guilt offering what has brought and what's not therefore he has to explain it in detail here however the sin offering was already explained in the previous Torah reading the tale because the offering is the guilt offering can only be either from a ram or a sheep and both of the sheep and the ram where added bonus that was being brought on the altar was the tail as well. Verse four and the two and the fat that's on the that's on the planks and the diaphragm that's on the liver and the kidneys all have to be removed. Verse five will then bring them onto the altar fire for God. This is a guilt offering. What does it mean? This is a guilt offering. So as the Torah says until his name becomes completely detached from it. What does the Torah teach us? The Torah is telling us that what about a guilt offering that the owners already died or they already forgiven for what it may be. So you may say what would be the purpose even though still in all what they would do is they would give it to a shepherd. He would then let it go and allow it to get a blemish and then they would sell it and buy with it an ascent offering and they would use it a scent offering for when nothing was burning on the altar. They use that as well. However, they didn't wait and the owners did not wait until had it and they just slaughtered it the way it was wouldn't be fit for an offering because when we're talking about here that when he slaughtered it, it's talking about that they took it away and they gave it for a shepherd to be able to let it pasture and let it get on its own a blemish and then sell it and have they use the money to buy an ascent offering. It's not coming to tell me about the guilt offering that it should be unfit when it was done not for the proper intent because that we already learned from the verse when it told us about the sin offering being that it only says that it's a guilt offering after was already brought. So from here I know who that even if he himself didn't bring it and he didn't bring the limbs with the intent of thinking that it's a guilt offering this the owners are still forgiven for it and it's still considered kosher. Verse six, all the male coins are allowed to eat it in a holy place should be eaten. It's considered very holy in it explains this more in detail. Verse seven, just like the sin offering and just like the guilt offering, this is all one law. This is one uh have the same regulations. The one that brings the actual sacrifice, he gets to keep the sacrifice and he's the one that has to eat it. What does it mean? But do this thing the who is the one bringing the sacrifice doesn't mean that he himself as we mentioned before the one that's befitting to be able to bring the sacrifice is also entitled to have a part of it. This comes to exclude a person who's impure for that day or a person who has not yet brought all the proper sacrifices to be uh atoned or a person who lost a family member. All these people are not able to bring the sacrifice. Therefore, they're not able to participate in it as well. Verse 8. So too any Cohen who offers the person's ascent offering. Another gift that the cohen gets is that he's able to get the hide of any ascent offering that the coin that he offers up and receives a portion from it. Rashi This excludes a person who is unfit to be able to bring it. Like we just mentioned before, a person who's impure. He hasn't yet done the things for an atonement or a person who lost a family member that they are not able to bring a sacrifice. Therefore, they do not get a part of this division of the sacrifice and the Cohen gets to keep the hide of the animal. Verse 9. Any grain offering that has been baked in an oven or anything that was made in a deep frying pan or in a regular shallow frying pan. The one who brings it is the one that keeps it. Verse nash would think that he gets it all on his own to eat that it goes to all the thinking give it to everybody clearly therefore the coin says to the one who brings it okay how can I give it to everybody and only give it to the cohen who brings it at the same time the base of it goes to there was every single day the families in the holy temple rotated who would be in charge so you would give it to the leader of that family would be responsible of splitting it up, dividing it according to how each family got their position and when they were working in the holy temple. Verse 10 of and every meal offering that was mixed with oil of or to be dry like a referring to a a grain offering of a sinner which did not have the oil toward and did not and oil was not added to still in they would get this would be belong to all the sons of each individual would cohen would get a portion like the other nobody got more and another person what's mixed with oil that's a donation meal offering that's a sin offering or or one which was used by a sh that there is no oil by it this concludes the second Torah reading for parishes stuff.