Vayikra - 3rd Portion

Join me as we learn kumish for parishes fayikra Tuesday the third Torah reading of parishes fikra chapter 2 verse 7. Yesterday we learned about if a person was not able to bring or afford cattle uh for a scent offering they were able to bring either birds or a meal offering. We learned yesterday there were three kinds of meal offerings. One that was in the loaves, ones that was like matzas, and ones that was like fried. Today we continue with the details of the meal offering. Verse seven. If your sacrifice is a grain offering in a deep frying pan, it has to be made fine flour with a lo of oil. Marashes. What is marashes? There was a vessel in the holy temple which was called what it looked like was deep not like we learned yesterday about the frying pan. This was more like a pot because it was deep. So therefore was more gathered and it wouldn't burn because it was in a deep pot. And therefore the meal offering that was made into it did not become hard. It was softer. It was like something that was boiled. Anything that's made into a boiling water and boiling is soft and it looks like it's bumpling around, it's much softer. Verse eight, and you will bring to God the brain grain offering that was made from them. Bring it to the coin and he will bring it to the altar from any of these kinds. the owners will bring it to the cohen. But who's the one that's going to bring it to the altar is the he comes to the southwest side of the altar and that's where he's going to bring this part of the meal offering. Verse 8, verse 9. And the coind will then lift from this memorial uh from this uh out of a fistful of this memorial of this meal offering the will then bring it onto bring it as a sacrifice on the altar a burnt offering which is pleasing to God. What does it mean to ask this memorial that's the fistful that he takes out of the meal offering. Verse 10. Whatever is left over is from the meal offering. Goes to his sons. This is holy of holies from God's sacrifices. Verse 11. Any meal offering that you will bring to God should not be made of leaven bread should not be because any yeast and any honey should not be brought should not be brought as a burnt offering as a burnt offering to God. Rashi esash any honey doesn't mean literally honey any sweet fruit is already is part of the prohibition of honey verse 12 there are other instances where you would be required to bring leaven leavenvening agents and so on and says as follows for example the offering which is of your first of your produce you'll bring that to God but on the altar you will not bring these as an offering explains what this means and says as follows what you're asking being that the Torah tells me that I can't bring any yeast or I can't bring any leaven bread or I can't bring any sweet fruit so what can I bring from the east says when it comes to then the bread is going to be leavened that comes from as it says that it should be leavened bread and so the first fruits it's going to be your sweet fruits which is the first of your figs and dates you're going to bring it you're going to bring it to the holy temple another condition that has to be with all the sacrifices and all your sacrifices that are meal offerings you must make sure that it is salted. You should not omit any salt from it. You should make sure you don't omit salt from any of your offerings. It's a covenant with God. From all your grain offerings and all your sacrifices should be brought with salt. Rashi 13 mel kind of covenant is there with salt. Because God pro made a promise to the soul from the six days of creation. When on the second day of creation when God split the heavens from the top and the bottom then God promised that from the waters below something will be brought on the altar and that is salt. So too, the pouring of the water, the water libations, and the holiday of sukus and all your sacrifices, even on the ascent offerings of the animals and birds and on all of the pieces, all everything was brought with salt. Verse 14. And if you're going when you're going to bring the grain offerings, your first grain offerings to Hashem to God, You must bring your grain offerings as soon as it ripens. Roasted over fire. Caramel ground husks. Are you going will you bring your first offering? Meal offering. This is talking about the meal offering over here. Doesn't mean if you're going to, but it means when. This is not something which if you'd like to. This is talking about the meal offering which was the Omr offering which allowed people then to bring their crop and grain which that is an obligatory. We find this in other places which means an obligatory not if voluntary. When we're talking about the first ripened crop, this is talking about this is talking and referring to the Omar offering which was the first time that the wheat was cut if that came when the wheat was ripened when the wheat would came to its proper ripening place and what you brought over here. This was not wheat like we mentioned in the other meal offerings. came from barley because we have a justosition of the two words that are the same. The word is mentioned over here and the so too mentioned by barley. What does it mean? That it's roasted over fire. They would dry the grains, the husks over fire, which is a special vessel which was made that had a bunch of little holes like a barbecue kind of thing that they would roast all these things because if you don't roast it then you'll never be able to grind it because since they're so um because since they were still very moist and they were not able to grind it and make it into a flour. So first you have to harden it by roasting it. Once it was hardened then they make it into a flour. get as caramel. You could you get it while something which is something which is ground into a very thick flour and this means that the wheat was thick while it was still wet. Garris. The word Garris comes from the word grinding and breaking. Is that a person grinds it in a in a mill of where they use very big and thick um uh uh wheat grains or grains of grains of meal grains. Caramel. The word caramel but that means while the straw is still on it the it's called we would call whole brand for that matter when the wheat on the inside is still wet and it's still filled with its grains and kernels inside caramel. Therefore, they call the little pieces that come off from the like the berries that come off the fresh wheat, they call it caramel because they fill up the caramel because since they fill up a whole sack because there's so many of them and as well we find this in the book of Kings where it says caramel that the stalk of wheat was filled with its husk and it still had a lot of um berries ingrained in it. Verse 13. Verse 15, sorry. Verse 15. Put on an oil. He'll put in it spices. This becomes a meal offering. Verse 16. The co then must burn up its memorial fistful. That means taking a fistful of this meal offering me from its ground flour and from its oil. Alsosa with all its frankincense is hashem. This becomes a fire offering to God. This concludes the third Torah reading of Pares Fikra.