Tetzaveh - 4th Portion

Join me as we learnedish for Wednesday parishes the fourth Torah reading chapter 29 verse 1. Yesterday we learned about the concluding garments that were made for the high priest and for the regular priest. Eight garments for the high priest and four for the regular priest and the requirements of how they have to use them when working in the holy temple. Once we've now discussed all the vessels, most of the vessels and as well as the garments of the high priest, the Torah now tells us about the installation rights and the training that would be given to the Coenim to get them ready to working in the holy temple. Though this only happened later on once the temple was dedicated over here, God tells Moses what and how it should be done. Chapter 29 verse one. And these are what you should do to consecrate them that they should work for me to be working as a holy as a cohen to be a cohen. They're going to do you're going to take a young one young bull ben bucker theim and two ramsim they have to be complete without a blemish. take. It's like two forms of the same word. One means taking and you should take and they both mean the same thing. One young bull to be able to forgive and atone for the sin of the golden calf which comes from a cow comes from a bull. Verse two, you're going to take also 10 loaves of unleavened bread and 10 loaves of and 10 unleavened loaves as well which these will be needed with oil and then 10 flat unleavened cakes brushed with oil. They should be made out of fine wheat flour. That's the way they should be made. If you look over here, the kinds that have to be brought three different kinds of bread. These three you find over here three different kinds of bread. You have 10 loaves of unleavened bread. You have 10 unleavened loaves. And then you have the flat unleavened cakes. Leamis he. This is what we find that we're talking about the this loaves of matas which where we talk about later on is called loaves of bread unleaven bread oil. It's because the amount of oil that he puts in is for all the loaves and for the flat cakes as well. All of these together, when they would bring them, there was 10 of each kind. While it's still flour, you needed it together with oil. There's two different kinds of oil. It was done. After it was already baked, then you would smear oil on it. How would you smear the oil? You would make it in the shape of like a sea that you would pure brush the oil on it. Verse Three, you will then place them all into a single basket and you'll bring it together in that basket and the two rams. Where you going to bring it to? To the courtyard of the tabernacle. And this will all happen on the day of putting up the tabernacle. Verse four. and Aaron and his sons you'll bring to the entrance of the oil mode of the tent of gathering and you'll wash them and you'll immerse them in water of a mikvah when it means washing here doesn't mean they can take a shower in fact this refers to says this means immersing in a mikvah verse five you'll then take the clothing you'll dress the tunic and the robe and the robe of the aphod and the aphford itself and the breast plate and you will then tie the strap of the aphot. What does it mean? You'll make sure that it's fastened and you'll tie this belt of the aphot around him. Verse six, then you'll place the turban on his headph. And then you will place the the um the middle cord of the actual holy uh holy crown on the turban which is from the forehead plate as we mentioned previously yesterday about the forehead plate that will go o the strap would go over the turbanes. This refers to the forehead plate. Like explained previously, like we explained in yesterday's Torah reading concerning the breast, concerning the forehead plate, there was the two strings on the side, the one string that went down the middle that made it look like a cap that went on his head. Verse seven. And then you will take the anointing oil, the attack toleration, you pour it on his head and saying you will anoint him. So too anytime when we talk about this kind of pouring was done like a you would put then the oil on his head between his eyebrows and then connect it with his finger. That means once he starts to pour the oil and then he uses his finger and pours and schlles the oil from one side to the other until he goes around to his neck like a verse n verse eight and also his children you'll bring close and dress them in their tunics. Verse nine. And you shall bring them and you shall gird them with the satches of the sons. And you should put their and you will put them on with their hats and will be for them the priesthood for eternity as a for for a statute for eternity. and you will then inaugurate Aaron and his sons. Rashi verse 9 will be for them meaning the very fact that inaugurating them that by inaugurating them and educating them this now makes that their children will also be gan and they will have they will not have to be inaugurated again. How was it going to be inaugurated and how will they be able to fulfill their job is by doing all the things that we mentioned the hand of Aaron and the sons by following and doing the laws of the priesthood. Verse 10 and then you'll bring the bull before the tent of gathering and iron and essential place their hands on it on the head of the bull. Verse 11. And then you will slaughter the in front of God at the entrance of the tent of gathering. What does it mean? The entrance doesn't mean literally at the entrance in the courtyard of the of the tabernacle which will be parallel to the courtyard to the opening. That means in that part which is on the entrance of the tent of gathering. Verse 12. And there you'll take from the blood of the bull and you'll bring it to the corners of the altar with your finger and the rest of the blood you will then pour at the base of the altar on the top on its actual corners meaning the leftover blood will be spilled at the base of the altar. All you say is there was like a little frame there was a that would come out like a molding that would be on the bottom and that would protrude from the altar and that after one amma off the ground that's where they would pour it after above the ground there was a protrusion and by that area that was considered the foundation of the altar and that's where they would pour the blood. Verse 13 And then you will take the entire membrane of fat that covers over the bull's inert and the and the as well as the diaphragm and the part of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that's around them. and he will burn them on the altar. That's the membrane that's on the stomach which is called in that language membrane over here refers to who what the rabbis called when we talk about in the Talmud when it refers to the part of meat the part of the fat that is between the liver and the other parts of there he calls it which that would be the diaphragm of the liver. on the liver meaning so too take the liver with it. Verse 14 and then the flesh of the bull and its skin together with its hide and its waste will be burned out where will be burned in fire outside the camp. This will be considered a sin offering. 14. What is it telling us here? This was only a temporary uh ruling because we don't find anywhere else that a sin offering should be burnt outside the camp. Only this case that was done by the calf that by the bull that was brought by the the inauguration of Aaron and his sons. We continue on to verse 15. Remember there were two rams that were brought as well. So now the first ram he was going to take and Aaron and his sons will then place their hands on the first ram. Verse 16. Then you will then slaughter this ram and you will take its blood and you'll throw it onto the altar all around it. The zaraka. How are you going to throw it? You must use a vessel. How is this done? A coin stands on the bottom using a bowl and throws it towards the corner. The blood should be seen on both sides of the corner. When a sacrifice is brought, we don't find that it's done with a finger. We are as we find in the holy temple when it was done in yum kipper that he used a finger to sprinkle the blood. This was only over here saying use a vessel. The only time a finger was used was by offering. The other offerings they were not used a horn. They would not use a horn or a finger. It would be because when they would spill the blood, when they would sprinkle the blood, it was only on the lower part of the altar. It wouldn't that he wouldn't have to go up a ramp. There was a small ramp on the side of the altar that if he had to sprinkle it higher, but this he would stand from where he is and just throw it on the wall of the altar with a vessel. The only one that was used with a finger was a sin offering. And that at times he would have to go up the ramp. And this is all discussed already in the book of Leviticus as we'll get to it at a later time. This is the way it's explained in the track of the word around it's talking about two times that he actually threw the blood but it was like for because it went on both sides of one was on one corner of one was on the opposite angle corner. So one he did on the north one east or northeast and then on the southwest as well whenever we talk about that they would be throwing the blood was talking about that he did on both sides of the corner but on both sides the blood was then on all four sides like therefore it's called around because you're able to see the blood on all four corners. He actually threw it on two sides, but you're able to see the blood from all four sides. Verse 17, the actual ram then you will cut into sections and then you will wash its iners and its leg. And then you will place the iners together with it with the other pieces and its head together with the other pieces together with the all the other pieces that you already cut. You're going to take the inards and place them together. Verse 18. Then you shall burn the entire ram on the altar. This is considered an ascent offering to God. This is considered this will be a pleasing pleasing or pleasing offering to God. It is considered very pleased. The word does it mean a pleasant smell. Does God get pleasure from meat burning? What does that really mean? A pleasant smell to God. So Rashi explains, "I get pleasure from the fact that I told you what to do and you followed my desires." The word is means comes from a fire meaning a sacrifice to God. As the Torah concludes this Torah reading, doing what God wants gives God. This concludes the fourth Torah reading for parasa.