Tzav/Shabbat Hagadol 5785

Blessed are You, Adonoy our God, Ruler of the Universe, Who sanctified us with THE command

ments and commanded us to be engrossed in the words of Torah.

(1) יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (2) Command Aaron and his sons thus: This is the ritual of the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain where it is burned upon the altar all night until morning, while the fire on the altar is kept going on it. (3) The priest shall dress in linen raiment, with linen breeches next to his body; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar. (4) He shall then take off his vestments and put on other vestments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a pure place. (5) The fire on the altar shall be kept burning, not to go out: every morning the priest shall feed wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat parts of the offerings of well-being. (6) A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar, not to go out. (7) And this is the ritual of the meal offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before יהוה, in front of the altar. (8) A handful of the choice flour and oil of the meal offering shall be taken from it, with all the frankincense that is on the meal offering, and this token portion shall be turned into smoke on the altar as a pleasing odor to יהוה. (9) What is left of it shall be eaten by Aaron and his sons; it shall be eaten as unleavened cakes, in the sacred precinct; they shall eat it in the enclosure of the Tent of Meeting. (10) It shall not be baked with leaven; I have given it as their portion from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. (11) Only the males among Aaron’s descendants may eat of it, as their due for all time throughout the ages from יהוה’s offerings by fire. Anything that touches these shall become holy. (12) יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (13) This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to יהוה on the occasion of his anointment: a tenth of an ephah of choice flour as a regular meal offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening, (14) shall be prepared with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well soaked, and offer it as a meal offering of baked slices, of pleasing odor to יהוה. (15) And so shall the priest, anointed from among his sons to succeed him, prepare it; it is יהוה’s—a law for all time—to be turned entirely into smoke. (16) So, too, every meal offering of a priest shall be a whole offering: it shall not be eaten. (17) יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (18) Speak to Aaron and his sons thus: This is the ritual of the sin offering: the sin offering shall be slaughtered before יהוה, at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered: it is most holy. (19) The priest who offers it as a sin offering shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in the sacred precinct, in the enclosure of the Tent of Meeting. (20) Anything that touches its flesh shall become holy; and if any of its blood is spattered upon a garment, you shall wash the bespattered part in the sacred precinct. (21) An earthen vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; if it was boiled in a copper vessel, [the vessel] shall be scoured and rinsed with water. (22) Only the males in the priestly line may eat of it: it is most holy. (23) But no sin offering may be eaten from which any blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting for expiation in the sanctuary; any such shall be consumed in fire. (1) This is the ritual of the guilt offering: it is most holy. (2) The guilt offering shall be slaughtered at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the blood shall be dashed on all sides of the altar. (3) All its fat shall be offered: the broad tail; the fat that covers the entrails; (4) the two kidneys and the fat that is on them at the loins; and the protuberance on the liver, which shall be removed with the kidneys. (5) The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to יהוה; it is a guilt offering. (6) Only the males in the priestly line may eat of it; it shall be eaten in the sacred precinct: it is most holy. (7) The guilt offering is like the sin offering. The same rule applies to both: it shall belong to the priest who makes expiation thereby. (8) So, too, the priest who offers another person’s burnt offering shall keep the skin of the burnt offering that was offered. (9) Further, any meal offering that is baked in an oven, and any that is prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who offers it. (10) But every other meal offering, with oil mixed in or dry, shall go to the sons of Aaron all alike. (11) This is the ritual of the sacrifice of well-being that one may offer to יהוה: (12) One who offers it for thanksgiving shall offer, together with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes with oil mixed in—unleavened wafers spread with oil—and cakes of choice flour with oil mixed in, well soaked. (13) This offering, with cakes of leavened bread added, shall be offered along with one’s thanksgiving sacrifice of well-being. (14) Out of this the person shall offer one of each kind as a gift to יהוה; it shall go to the priest who dashes the blood of the offering of well-being. (15) And the flesh of the thanksgiving sacrifice of well-being shall be eaten on the day that it is offered; none of it shall be set aside until morning. (16) If, however, the sacrifice offered is a votive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that one offers the sacrifice, and what is left of it shall be eaten on the morrow. (17) What is then left of the flesh of the sacrifice shall be consumed in fire on the third day. (18) If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of well-being is eaten on the third day, it shall not be acceptable; it shall not count for the one who offered it. It is an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear the guilt. (19) Flesh that touches anything impure shall not be eaten; it shall be consumed in fire. As for other flesh, only one who is pure may eat such flesh. (20) But the person who, in a state of impurity, eats flesh from יהוה’s sacrifices of well-being, that person shall be cut off from kin. (21) When a person touches anything impure, be it human impurity or an impure animal or any impure creature, and eats flesh from יהוה’s sacrifices of well-being, that person shall be cut off from kin. (22) And יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (23) Speak to the Israelite people thus: You shall eat no fat of ox or sheep or goat. (24) Fat from animals that died or were torn by beasts may be put to any use, but you must not eat it. (25) If anyone eats the fat of animals from which offerings by fire may be made to יהוה, the person who eats it shall be cut off from kin. (26) And you must not consume any blood, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements. (27) Anyone who eats blood shall be cut off from kin. (28) And יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (29) Speak to the Israelite people thus: The offering to יהוה from a sacrifice of well-being must be presented by the one who offers that sacrifice of well-being to יהוה: (30) one’s own hands shall present יהוה’s offerings by fire. The offerer shall present the fat with the breast, the breast to be elevated as an elevation offering before יהוה; (31) the priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, and the breast shall go to Aaron and his sons. (32) And the right thigh from your sacrifices of well-being you shall present to the priest as a gift; (33) he from among Aaron’s sons who offers the blood and the fat of the offering of well-being shall get the right thigh as his portion. (34) For I have taken the breast of elevation offering and the thigh of gift offering from the Israelites, from their sacrifices of well-being, and given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their due from the Israelites for all time. (35) Those shall be the perquisites of Aaron and the perquisites of his sons from יהוה’s offerings by fire, once they have been inducted to serve יהוה as priests; (36) these יהוה commanded to be given them, once they had been anointed, as a due from the Israelites for all time throughout the ages. (37) Such are the rituals of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the offering of ordination, and the sacrifice of well-being, (38) with which יהוה charged Moses on Mount Sinai, when commanding that the Israelites present their offerings to יהוה, in the wilderness of Sinai.