Question: why else should you not do any sacrifices at night?
Friday, March 22, 2019
Tzav #1
The Iban Ezra comments on the word הָעֹלָ֡ה: It is the burnt-offering so called because all of it ascends up to the Altar. This verse implies that one should not sacrifice the burnt-offering at night, because it must burn on the pyre all night. The word the pyre ends in an extra heh (or perhaps Hebrew contains both a masculine and a feminine form of the word).
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Anya: when you put in meat offerings, the fats and the limbs can be eaten all night long
ReplyDeleteThe darkest period in Jewish history is galut when we don’t have the Beit hamikdash which is compared to night. When we have the Beit Hamikdash, it is compared to morning. The Torah is teaching us that you should only give a Korban during the day.
ReplyDeleteWhat, then, was sacrifice in Judaism and why does it remain important, at least as an idea, even today? The simplest answer - though it does not explain the details of the different kinds of offering - is this: We love what we are willing to make sacrifices for. That is why, when they were a nation of farmers and shepherds, the Israelites demonstrated their love of God by bringing Him a symbolic gift of their flocks and herds, their grain and fruit; that is, their livelihood. To love is to thank. To love is to want to bring an offering to the Beloved. To love is to give.
ReplyDeleteAlthough a fire descended from heaven upon the altar, it is a mitzvah to add to it a humanly produced fire. (Talmud, Eruvin 63a) This is a rule that applies to all areas of life: the gifts of life are bestowed upon us from Above, yet it is G‑d’s desire that we add to them the product of our own initiative.
ReplyDeleteSo we leave the fire burning all night.
We should only give karabanot during the day because it’s described as galut when we don’t have the Beit hamikdash. When we do have the Beit hamikdash, were not in galut and therefore we should give karabanot during the day
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