Commentaire de citation sur L’Exode 30:24

wozu hätte auch das Hin dienen sollen. Bei keinem Opfer war ein ganzes Hin vorgeschrieben. Ein einziges Mal wurde ein solches Mass gebraucht, zur Herstellung des Salböls durch Mose (Exod. 30, 24). Dieses durch Mose hergestellte Salböl reichte, so lange der Tempel stand, es wurde deshalb niemals wieder anderes hergestellt. Nach R. Elieser, Sohn des R. Zadok, war deshalb dieses Massgefäss sofort nach dem Gebrauch vergraben worden, nach Ansicht der Weisen wurde es unter den übrigen Massgefässen im Tempel weitergeführt.

Myrrh and aloes and cassia Heb. קדה (Exod. 30:24) is translated קציעתא, cassia.

V’KINMON BESEM’ (AND OF CINNAMON SPICE) HALF SO MUCH. “Since cinnamon is the bark of a tree [and it is of two kinds], one which has a good taste and fragrance, whilst the other is just like [any other] wood, therefore Scripture had to say: kinmon besem — of the good kind.” This is Rashi’s language. And Harav Rabbi Moshe [ben Maimon] said¹²⁶In his commentary to the Mishnah, at the beginning of Tractate Kerithoth. See, however, in my Hebrew commentary p. 497, Note 8, that this definition that Ramban quotes in the name of Rambam on kinmon besem, is in our texts of Rambam’s commentary found on a different name altogether. The term mentioned here is in Arabic since Rambam wrote his commentary to the Mishnah in Arabic. See also following note. that it is “kesher salichah.”¹²⁷In Joseph Kapach’s new Hebrew translation of Rambam’s commentary in Arabic, he comments on this term that it is “Cinnamonum Zeylanicum” (Kerithoth, p. 229, Note 49). Other scholars¹²⁸Mentioned by Ibn Ezra [in his short commentary on Exodus] in the name of Rabbeinu Saadia Gaon. hold that it is that precious tree called itib. But none of these interpretations is correct, for the Rabbis have said in Bereshith Rabbah¹²⁹Bereshith Rabbah 65:13. and in Midrash Chazita:¹³⁰Shir Hashirim Rabbah 4:29. See Vol. I, p. 277. “‘kinmon’ grew in the Land of Israel, and goat and deer ate of it.” Thus it is like the grass of the field from which the sheep pasture. In my opinion kinmon besem is the aromatic grass called in Arabic adbar, and in Latin ascinant,¹³¹See Dictionary under “ascidium.” which is an important spice, called in the vernacular, saika domika, and where it grows it is used as fodder for camels. Our Rabbi [Yitzchak Alfasi] wrote in [his Halachoth on Tractate] Pesachim,¹³²In the Chapter Arbei Pesachim. [in connection with the spices put into charoseth in memory of the straw from which the Israelites in Egypt made the bricks]: “such as kinmon and sanbal, which are similar to straw.”
Kidah¹³³Mentioned in Verse 24. is known from the Aramaic language, [as Onkelos rendered it] k’tziah (cassia). It is also so in Arabic.