📜 Daily Chumash & Rashi Parshas Shemini – Revi: The eating of the Karbanos (Wednesday 21st Nissan)

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  1. The eating of the Karbanos:
  • Moshe instructed Aaron and his surviving sons Elazar and Isamar to eat the leftovers of the Mincha offering as Matzah, as it is a Holy of Holies. It is to be eaten in a holy area because it is your portion from the Karbanos of Hashem.
  • Eating the Shelamim: The breast and thigh [of all Shelamim sacrifices] are to be eaten in a pure area by the sons and daughters of the Kohanim. The breast and thigh are to be waved with the fats before Hashem.

📘 Rashi Q&A — Vayikra 10:12–15

 

10:12 — “The Survivors”

Q1. What does “הַנּוֹתָרִים” (“the surviving ones”) mean according to Rashi?

A: Survivors from death.

 

Q2. What startling teaching does Rashi derive from calling Eleazar and Itamar “survivors”?

A: That they too had been sentenced to die because of the sin of the Golden Calf.

 

 

 

Q3. From where does Rashi prove that Aaron’s sons were under a death decree?

A: From the verse: “God was extremely furious with Aaron, threatening to destroy him,” where “destruction” means eradication of offspring.

 

Q4. How was this decree partially averted?

A: Moses’ prayer reduced the punishment by half.

 

10:12 — Eating While Onen

Q5. Why does Moses command them to eat the grain‑offering despite their mourning?

A: Even though an onen normally may not eat sacrifices, God explicitly commanded them to eat in this case.

 

Q6. Which grain‑offerings does Rashi say are meant here?

A:

  • The grain‑offering of the eighth day of installation
  • The grain‑offering brought by Nachshon for the dedication of the Altar

 

10:12 — “Eat Them as Matzot”

Q7. Why does the Torah need to say “eat them as unleavened loaves”?

A: Because this was a one‑time, communal grain‑offering, unlike offerings of later generations, and might have been thought to follow different rules.

 

Q8. What does Rashi conclude from this clarification?

A: That it follows the same rules as all other grain‑offerings.

 

10:13 — Portions of the Priests

Q9. What does “וְחָק־בָּנֶיךָ” teach according to Rashi?

A: That sons receive portions of sacrificial meat, but daughters do not.

 

Q10. What does “כִּי כֵן צֻוֵּיתִי” emphasize?

A: That they were commanded to eat despite being onenim.

 

10:14 — Where the Portions Are Eaten

Q11. Why does the verse say to eat the breast and thigh “in a pure place”?

A: To contrast them with sacrifices of superior holiness, which must be eaten in a holy place (the Courtyard).

 

Q12. Where may these portions be eaten according to Rashi?

A: Anywhere within the Israelite camp that is ritually pure.

 

Q13. What major halachic principle does Rashi derive here?

A: That sacrifices of lesser holiness may be eaten throughout Jerusalem.

 

 

 

10:14 — Sons and Daughters

Q14. How does Rashi explain “you and your sons and your daughters”?

A:

  • Sons receive a portion by right
  • Daughters do not, but may eat if given from their father’s portion

 

Q15. How does Rashi reject the idea that daughters receive portions directly?

A: The verse later specifies: “your portion and your sons’ portion”, excluding daughters.

 

10:15 — Waving and Raising

Q16. What do “שׁוֹק הַתְּרוּמָה” and “חֲזֵה הַתְּנוּפָה” mean?

A: The hind midleg and the breast that are raised and waved.

 

Q17. How are “waving” and “raising” performed?

A:

  • Waving: forward and backward
  • Raising: upward and downward

 

Q18. Why does the Torah assign raising to the thigh and waving to the breast?

A: We do not know, since both were actually waved and raised.

 

10:15 — Placement on the Fats

Q19. What does Rashi derive from “עַל אִשֵּׁי הַחֲלָבִים”?

A: That the fats must be underneath the breast and thigh during the waving.

 

Q20. Where does Rashi say the full reconciliation of the verses is explained?

A: In Parashat Tzav et Aharon.

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