📜 Daily Chumash & Rashi Parshas Tazria Metzora – Chamishi: The Karbanos of a pauper Metzora (Thursday, 29th Nissan)

📘 Rashi Q&A — Vayikra 14:21–32

14:21 — The Poor Metzora

Q1. What does “וְעִשָּׂרוֹן סֹלֶת אֶחָד” teach according to Rashi?

A: Since the metzora brings one lamb as a guilt‑offering, he brings one‑tenth of an ephah of fine flour for its libation.

Q2. Why does Scripture specify “וְלֹג שָׁמֶן”?

A: To indicate oil used for application on the ear, thumb, and toe; the oil mixed with the grain‑offering need not be specified explicitly.

14:22 — Birds of the Poor

Q3. How are the two birds designated?

A: One as a sin‑offering and one as an ascent‑offering, according to what the person can afford.

14:23 — “The Eighth Day”

Q4. What does “בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁמִינִי לְטָהֳרָתוֹ” mean?

A: The eighth day counting from the first purification rite, involving the two birds and the sprinkling with cedar, hyssop, and scarlet wool.

14:24 — Waving the Offerings

Q5. What items are waved according to this verse?

A: The guilt‑offering lamb together with the log of oil.

14:25 — Blood Application

Q6. Where is the blood of the guilt‑offering applied?

A: On the middle ridge of the antihelix of the right ear, the right thumb, and the right big toe of the metzora.

14:26–27 — Oil Sprinkling

Q7. What does the priest do with the oil after pouring it into his left palm?

A: He dips his right index finger and sprinkles oil seven times before God.

14:28 — Oil on the Blood’s Place

Q8. What does “עַל־מְקוֹם דַּם הָאָשָׁם” teach?

A: Even if the blood is no longer visible, the oil must be placed on the same location—the place of the blood, not the blood itself.

14:29 — Oil on the Head

Q9. What is accomplished by placing the remaining oil on the metzora’s head?

A: It effects atonement for him before God.

14:30–31 — Order of Offerings

Q10. What determines which of the birds is brought?

A: What the person can afford.

Q11. In what order are the offerings brought?

A:

1. Sin‑offering
2. Ascent‑offering
3. Grain‑offering

14:32 — Concluding Statement

Q12. What does this verse summarize?

A: The law of purification for a metzora who cannot afford the full set of offerings.