Aliya Summary: This Aliya discusses the priestly meal offering,
brought by the High Priest twice daily, and by every priest on the day
he is first inducted into Temple service. The laws of the Sin Offering
and Guilt Offering, also discussed in last week's Parsha, are also
repeated with added details. An important principle discussed is a
vessel's absorption of sacrificial meats cooked therein, and the
possibility of purging (certain types of) vessels of the vestiges it
absorbed -- a concept which is very germane in the laws of kosher. This
section concludes with a discussion regarding various gratuities the
priests were entitled to take from the different offerings and
sacrifices.
The Kli Yakar points out that the Torah
commands the bringing of the Chatat and Asham (the Sin and Guilt
offerings) in the same place in the courtyard of the Beit HaMikdash as
the Olah in order to protect the feelings and privacy of the sinner.
People who see someone at that place can now assume that they are
bringing an Olah and will not automatically jump to the conclusion that
the person has sinned. This is similar to one of the reasons given for
the Amida being a silent prayer - this protects a davener from the
embarrassment of something they might include in their prayer.
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