Commentaire de citation sur Le Lévitique 6:10

אזכרתה, the Torah employs an expression involving זכר, memory, memorial, in connection with frankincense the fragrance of which rises heavenwards, designed to bring the party offering same to the attention of his Maker. This is spelled out more clearly in Isaiah 66,3. We also find this kind of terminology in connection with the showbreads (Leviticus 24,7) which were accompanied with a bowl of frankincense for each stack of six such breads. Even the precise amount of frankincense and the amount of oil it contains is all spelled out, as well as the difference between the different types of gift offerings. All of them contain unleavened bread as mentioned in Parshat Tzav 6,10.

hat man ein Verbot übertreten. Nicht nur, wenn man den Teig säuern lässt, bevor man das davon auf dem Altar Darzubringende abgehoben hat, sondern, selbst wenn man nur das Zurückbleibende säuern lässt, übertritt man ein Verbot, denn auch von diesem heisst es (Lev. 6, 10): „es soll nicht gesäuert gebacken werden, als ihren Anteil habe ich es von meinen Feueropfern gegeben.„ Auch dürfen die Priester es nur ungesäuert essen (Lev. 6, 9).

The entire episode teaches that G-d directs and supervises the world and that there is a system of reward and punishment. The Jewish people received the Torah on the fiftieth day after the Exodus at which time they became G-d’s most favoured nation. Kayin, who murdered on the fiftieth day was cursed whereas Hevel received his reward for good conduct in that his soul was reincarnated in Moses’ body and he was even instrumental in bringing the Torah to the Jewish people. In due course, the power of the evil urge will be broken on the fiftieth day (in terms of G-d’s calendar, after 7 times 7.000 years in terms of our years.) [The author elaborates on this in his commentary on Parshat Behaalotcha and in his commentary on Parshat Behar.] Everything G-d does is based on the principle of מדה כנגד מדה, that “the punishment (or the reward) is appropriate to the nature of the sin.” Everything G-d does is based on justice as we also know from Proverbs 16,11 פלס ומאזני משפט לה', “Honest scales and weights are the Lord’s.” This is also the reason that the Torah prohibits the presence of leavened dough as part of the gift-offering as leavening is an allusion to the evil urge. Leviticus 6,10 states specifically that gift-offerings must not be baked in such a manner that their dough has time to rise. The only time the Torah specifically commands such a gift-offering to consist of dough which has been leavened, has been allowed to rise is in Leviticus 23,17 where this offering of the שני הלחם “the two breads” of the Shavuot festival is legislated. The reason is that this offering looks forward to the יובל הגדול, “the great Jubilee year,” when the evil urge will no longer be part of this universe.

וחק בניך AND THY SONS’ PORTION — Daughters are not mentioned as is the case in v. 14 because daughters have no portion in these holy things (meal-offerings; cf. Leviticus 6:10— 11) (Sifra, Shemini, Chapter 1 7).