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- Tell the Jewish people and their converts that if they bring an Olah or Shlamim offering outside the Temple, that man will be cut off from his people.
- Prohibition against eating blood:
- Any man of Israel who eats any blood is liable for excision, and I will cut him off from the Jewish people. The soul of all flesh is found in its blood, and it has been designated to be offered to the altar, to atone for your souls. Therefore, no man or convert shall eat blood.
- The Mitzvah to cover blood:
- Any Jew or convert who traps a wild animal [i.e. Chayah] or bird that may be eaten, is to have its blood covered with earth, as the soul of all flesh is found in its blood. Tell the Jewish people not to eat the blood of any flesh, as its soul is its blood, and one who consumes it will be cut off.
- Tuma received through eating Niveila/Treifa bird:
- One who eats a Niveila or Treifa [of a bird] becomes impure, and requires purification. He is to wash his garments and immerse in water and remains impure until evening. If he does not wash his clothing and does not immerse his flesh [and eats Kodshim or enters the Kodesh], he shall carry his sin.
- Not to follow the ways of the gentiles:
- Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, tell the Jewish people: Do not follow the ways of the land of Egypt where you lived, or the ways of the land of the Canaanites where I will bring you. Do not follow their statutes. Follow my laws and decrees as I am Hashem your G-d. Follow them and you shall live.
- The forbidden relations/Arayos:
- One is not to come close to any [of the following] relatives, to reveal their nakedness [and engage in marital relations].
- Do not reveal the Erva/nakedness of your father or mother [i.e. have intercourse].
- Do not reveal the Erva of your father’s wife.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your sister, including a half sister.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your granddaughter.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your sister if she is your father’s wife’s daughter (half sister).
- Do not reveal the Erva of your father’s sister.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your mother’s sister.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your father’s brother or his wife.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your daughter in-law.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your brother’s wife.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your mother and daughter or granddaughter.
- Do not reveal the Erva of your wife’s sister.
- Do not reveal the Erva of a Nida.
- Do not sleep with another man’s wife.
- Do not give your offspring to Moleich, do not desecrate the name of G-d.
17:8 — Offering Outside the Sanctuary
Q1. Why does Scripture state “אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲלֶה עֹלָה”?
A: To render liable one who burns sacrificial limbs outside the Courtyard just as one who slaughters there; if one slaughters outside and another offers it up, both are liable.
Q2. What does “וְנִכְרַת” mean?
A: His offspring will be cut off, and his own days will be cut off.
Q3. What does “כָּל־דָּם” include?
A: All blood, not only the blood of consecrated animals.
Q4. What does “וְנָתַתִּי פָנַי” mean?
A: God will turn all His attention to this sinner alone.
Q5. Why does blood atone?
A: Because the soul depends on the blood; therefore, the soul of the sacrifice atones for the soul of its owner.
Q6. What is implied by “כָּל־נֶפֶשׁ מִכֶּם”?
A: Adults must ensure that minors also do not consume blood.
Q7. What does “אֲשֶׁר יָצוּד” teach?
A: The law applies not only to hunted game but also to domesticated fowl, such as chickens.
Q8. Why does Scripture say “who traps” if it applies more broadly?
A: To teach that one should eat meat only occasionally, as one eats hunted game.
Q9. What does “אֲשֶׁר יֵאָכֵל” exclude?
A: Species unfit for consumption.
Q10. What does “דָּמוֹ בְנַפְשׁוֹ הוּא” mean?
A: Blood represents the soul, because the soul depends on it.
Q11. To what case does “נְבֵלָה וּטְרֵפָה” refer here?
A: The carcass of a kosher species of fowl, which becomes defiling only by being eaten.
Q12. Why mention “treated as a fatal defect”?
A: To exclude non‑kosher species, which cannot acquire further prohibition.
Q13. What does “וְנָשָׂא עֲוֹנוֹ” mean?
A: If he eats sancta or enters the Sanctuary while defiled, he is liable like in all other cases of ritual defilement.
Q14. What distinction is made between washing garments and washing flesh?
A: Failure to immerse the body incurs excision; failing to wash garments incurs lashes.
Q15. Why does Scripture open with “אֲנִי ה’ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם”?
A: Because God introduces these difficult decrees by reminding Israel of His kingship, authority to punish, and trustworthiness to reward.
18:3 — Practices of Egypt and Canaan
Q16. What does “כְּמַעֲשֵׂה אֶרֶץ־מִצְרַיִם” teach?
A: These nations were more debased than all others.
Q17. Why mention “to which I am bringing you”?
A: To teach that the conquered nations were the most corrupt of all.
Q18. What does “וּבְחֻקֹּתֵיהֶם לֹא תֵלֵכוּ” add?
A: A prohibition of their established customs, such as theaters, stadiums, and “ways of the Amorites”.
Q19. What are “מִשְׁפָּטִים”?
A: Laws that are logically necessary, even if not written.
Q20. What are “חֻקִּים”?
A: Divine decrees without apparent reason, which the evil inclination challenges.
Q21. What does “לָלֶכֶת בָּהֶם” teach?
A: One must not abandon Torah to pursue other wisdoms.
Q22. What life is meant by “וָחַי בָּהֶם”?
A: Eternal life in the World to Come.
Q23. Why is “לֹא תִקְרְבוּ” written in the plural?
A: To apply the prohibition to both men and women.
Q24. What does “עֶרְוַת אָבִיךָ” refer to?
A: Your father’s wife, not the father himself.
Q25. What does “וְעֶרְוַת אִמֶּךָ” include?
A: His biological mother, even if not his father’s wife.
Q26. Why restate the father’s wife separately?
A: To include the prohibition even after the father’s death.
Q27. What does “בַת־אָבִיךָ” include?
A: Even a daughter born from rape.
Q28. What does “מוֹלֶדֶת בַּיִת אוֹ מוֹלֶדֶת חוּץ” mean?
A: Whether the union was permitted or forbidden.
Q29. What is excluded by “בַת־אֵשֶׁת אָבִיךָ”?
A: A sister born of a Canaanite bondwoman or non‑Jewess.
Q30. What does “עֶרְוַת אֲחִי אָבִיךָ” require explanation of?
A: That it refers specifically to approaching his wife.
Q31. What does “אֵשֶׁת בִּנְךָ” indicate?
A: Only a legally married daughter‑in‑law is included.
18:17 — A Woman and Her Descendants
Q32. When does the prohibition apply?
A: Only when the relationship arises through legal marriage, not rape.
Q33. What does “זִמָּה” mean?
A: A sinful scheme, advised by the evil inclination.
Q34. What does “לִצְרֹר” mean?
A: To make them rival wives.
Q35. What does “בְּחַיֶּיהָ” teach?
A: Even after divorce, he may not marry her sister while she lives.
Q36. What was the worship of Molech?
A: Passing one’s child between two fires, after handing the child to the priests of the idol.
Q37. What do the phrases “לֹא תִתֵּן” and “לְהַעֲבִיר” distinguish?
A:
- “You must not give” → handing the child to the priests
- “To pass through” → the act of passing through fire
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