Cytowanie Komentarza do Kapłańska 2:1

היה נוטל – her husband [would take] her meal-offering, for the command of the priesthood regarding meal-offering is from taking a fistful of the meal-offering and onward (see also Talmud Menahot 9a) and bringing near [the meal-offering] is also the beginning of taking a fistful of the meal-offering but a foreigner (i.e., non-Kohen) does not make an offering on the altar but the sanctification of the utensils and the pouring of oil (on the flour – see Leviticus 2:1) and the mixing, as meal-offerings require oil are appropriate for non-Kohanim.

And you shall make an altar for burning incense. It appears that these two altars were both arranged to atone for the sinful soul, because the copper altar was intended to atone for the material and physical parts, which are struck by the stone of sin, and on it are sacrificed animals that come as substitutes, because they have a similarity to the material nature of humans. The shape of the altar proves this, as its height resembles that of an average person — three cubits. Similarly, the animals that are sacrificed resemble the animal soul within a person — a soul in exchange for a soul. For this reason it says regarding the poor person’s meal offering, When a soul offers (Leviticus 2:1), because he cannot afford to sacrifice an animal’s soul in place of his own soul, so he brings a flour offering. Therefore the verse says a soul, [to indicate that] I consider it as if he had offered his own soul.

The fistfuls of meal-offerings were taken in any part of the Temple court, and they [the minhah-offerings] were eaten within the curtains, by male priests, prepared in any manner, on the same day and night, until midnight. The mishnah has now completed the topic of animal sacrifices and is moving on to other things that are offered in the Temple. Out of minhah offerings (grain) are removed fistfuls of flour and they are burned on the altar (see Leviticus 2:1-3). The removal of the fistful from the minhah can be done anywhere in the Temple court, and not just on the northern side of the altar. The minhah itself (not the fistful) is eaten by male priests (and not their households) within the Temple confines. It can be cooked in any manner, but it must be eaten by midnight of the day it was brought.

You are more handsome than [other] men who engage in the work of transitory life. Why? Because charm is poured into your lips to instruct according to the halachah. הוּצַק means “poured,” as (Exod. 38:27): “to cast (לצקת)”; (Gen. 28:18), “and he poured (ויצק) oil.”