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When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to God. However, no animal from the herd or from the flock shall be slaughtered on the same day with its young\u201d (verse 28).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These two verses discuss general rules regarding sacrifices. The Midrash explains that these verses come to teach a humane element to selecting animals for sacrifices. One is that a mother and its young should not be sacrificed at the same time.The midrash contrasts this with Haman who commanded that all Jews - young and old - be killed on the same day of Purim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The other is that a mother animal should not have the young animal taken away right when it is born. Chizkuni explains that the seven-day waiting period is only for an animal that has reached the full gestation period. An animal that was born premature must wait longer. The implication of Chizkuni\u2019s opinion is that the eight-day waiting period is meant to allow the animal to reach some sort of viability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chizkuni\u2019s explanation makes sense in the context of both the first-born animal gift and a brit milah <\/em>(circumcision). Both of those events must happen on the eighth day. If a baby is not well on the eighth day, then the brit milah <\/em>is postponed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first prohibition sounds similar to the prohibition of not cooking a goat in its mother\u2019s milk. While that prohibition spawns the commandment of not eating milk and meat together generally, the specific rule given by the Torah does seem to have the added humane element to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps these two verses then have different motivating purposes. The eight-day waiting period is about the viability of the sacrifice and the prohibition not to take the mother and child on the same day have humane origins. Why did the Torah put them back-to-back? The answer may be as simple as that they are thematically similar: they both discuss a mother and a baby animal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Leviticus 22:27 \u201cWhen an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord\u201d has been the beginning of a Torah reading since Talmudic times (see Rashi to Megillah). In expounding this verse, the Midrash (Leviticus Rabbah 27:1) somewhat surprisingly includes two stories about what Alexander of Macedon learned when he ventured beyond the \u201cMountains of Darkness\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It turns out that a midrashic interpretation of our Torah verse is presented only at the conclusion of these two entertaining and instructive narratives. First, Alexander comes to a land inhabited only by women. \u201cThey meet him saying: \u2018If you vanquish us you will be known as having defeated women. But if we are victorious, you will be known as having been defeated by women.\u2019 He inscribed on their city gate, \u2018I, Alexander of Macedon, was ignorant until I came to the land of women and learned counsel from women.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\r\n

He then continued on to [North] Africa\u2026He announced: \u2018I have come to learn of your laws.\u2019 Just then two men came before the African king for judgement. One related that in a carob-tree he had purchased he found a treasure which he wanted to return to the seller. The seller replied that when he sold the carob-tree he relinquished possession of all in it. The African king resolved the problem by having the buyer\u2019s son marry the seller\u2019s daughter so that both families should benefit from the treasure. Alexander replied that where he ruled both men would be beheaded, and the king would take the treasure. The African king exclaimed that where people behave like that, the sun must shine and the rain must fall only for the sake of their cattle.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The African king\u2019s comment is reflected in what now follows \u2013 a midrashic interpretation of the verse, \u201cMan and beast You save, O Lord\u201d (Psalms 36:7). From this we learn that the laws of man and beast are similar. Of man it says, \u201cOn the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised (Leviticus 12:3), while about the beast is says, \u201cWhen an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord\u201d (Leviticus 22:27).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Today\u2019s chapter begins with an emphatic statement that the priests ought to be extra careful with their job in the Mishkan. The priests, the human vessels of the sanctuary, who have the potential to support and maintain the center of holiness are the selfsame individuals with the power to undo holiness -- and to profane the holy Name. In the verses that follow, the focus of the precaution, though, is not their role as mediators for others, but in fact their own presence in the Mishkan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of the privileges of the priesthood is to eat the \u201csacred donations\u201d given by the people. They greet those who arrive at the mishkan; facilitate their encounter with the divine; when they have gone, the priests partake of the sanctified food. This closed circuit of sacred flow, however, could easily be threatened by priestly negligence or worse, arrogance. Should a priest be lax with his own status -- and carelessly touch or eat sanctified food while impure-- he not only contaminates the food but undermines the standards of the system. Should a priest experience any of the normal causes of impurity (leprosy, contact with the dead, seminal emissions) and fail to respond ritually -- with the very laws he is responsible to monitor for others!-- he has profaned the sacred center. The irony, of course, is that only the priest will know. He is the one who declares a person leprous, who manages a person\u2019s contact with the dead, etc.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The concern here can be split in two, somewhat opposing directions. On the one hand, these verses aim to serve as a check against the priests, ensuring that they do not see themselves above the law. In the very \u201cinvisible\u201d realm of impurity, it could be so easy for a priest to demand high standards of all others and allow himself the latitude to shirk responsibility. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the same time, the verses may also be cautioning against priests falling prey to overinvestment in their work -- that they don\u2019t stop to pay attention to their own lives. In modern terms, this amounts to practicing self-care. Priests are explicitly told -- be scrupulous with yourselves, too. If you encounter a dead person, you, too, need to pause and reflect. You are a human being, too, and though you might be tempted, you cannot fully align yourself with your sacred work. 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Rabbi Abba bar Yudan said: Everything that God disqualified in animals, he endorsed in people. For animals, he disqualified the blind or broken or maimed, but in man he endorsed the broken, downtrodden heart (Vayikra Rabba 7). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Abba's is a beautiful idea, but it seems to ignore some inconvenient statements in the last chapter. There, the Torah lists exactly the same blemishes which disqualify an animal as disqualifying people- the <\/span>kohanim<\/span><\/em>. It's hard to imagine that Rabbi Abba had an easy time reading those verses, not because they posed a contradiction to his \"liberal, Western\" values, but because he saw them as contradicting values he gleaned from the Torah itself. But the verses in our chapter provide us with the resolution to this contradiction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What exactly is problematic about an animal with a blemish? Is it considered an insult to God, as Rashi suggests in his commentary on priestly disqualifications? This isn't the explanation that the Torah offers. Rather, the idea the Torah repeats 5 times over the course of 10 verses is that the animal must be '<\/span>liretzonchem<\/span><\/em>'<\/span><\/i>- it must pleasing <\/span>to you<\/b>. <\/i><\/b>If someone brings an animal which <\/span>they see<\/b> as imperfect, they will view their own sacrifice, their own act of religious worship, as incomplete, as blemished, as unsatisfying. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is true for the sacrifice is equally true for the priests, who are evaluated in terms of the service they can give. A \"blemished\" priest isn't prevented from enjoying holy food, only from acting as the messenger of the people, and this, only because of how the people will look at him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The problem of a blemish, then, is reflective of people's perceptions, not of inherent spiritual disqualification. It is descriptive, not prescriptive. This understanding isn't just fanciful apologetics; it has halachic teeth. The contemporary application of the laws of blemishes is in the context of the priestly blessing. Based on the Gemara, the halacha states that blemishes are a problem only to the extent that they bother people in the community. In a place where people have learned to accept an atypical physical appearance, either from their personal acquaintance with the individual, or the peculiar norms of the community, the priest may fulfill his priestly duty.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So if the laws of blemishes merely reflect people's perceptions, what is the ideal vision that we should be striving for? This, Rabbi Abba offered us, and, following him in the Midrash, Rabbi Alexandri:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A regular person, if someone serves him with broken vessels, he is insulted. But God- the vessels that serve him are broken as it says 'God is close to the broken hearted\" etc.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter relates a variety of laws that, while once extremely important to the Israelite temple cult, no longer apply to 21st-century humanity, even for Jews. The main concerns revolve around one\u2019s qualification to consume sacrificial offerings, like one\u2019s purity and socio-economic status and the ritual fitness of the animals themselves. Obviously, these strictures no longer apply in any practical sense today. Yet, they are very hard to ignore since the Torah utilizes language like \u201cbe scrupulous\u201d (v. 2), and \u201cthroughout the generations\u201d (v. 3). These words impart a timelessness that cannot simply be relegated to second-degree status because of the lack of a sacrificial cult and active purity laws (beyond priests avoiding corpses and practices around the menstrual cycle).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Most tellingly, the conclusion of this chapter, in summarizing fashion, commands the readers: \u201cYou shall faithfully observe (u-shemartrem, ve\u2019asitem<\/em>) My commandments: I am the Lord\u201d (v. 31). Paradoxically, God adjures us to observe purity and sacrificial laws that we cannot possibly fulfill due to what we understand as God\u2019s punishment in destroying the Temple. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are commanded to be pure by God but cannot do so because of God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This conundrum sheds light on Rashi\u2019s comment explaining \u201cu-shemartrem<\/em>\u201d as \u201cstudy\u201d and \u201cve\u2019asitem<\/em>\u201d as \u201caction.\u201d True, we cannot act on all of the laws mentioned in this chapter, but we can study them. This accords well with the rabbinic idea that recitation of biblical passages relating to the sacrifices is equated with performing the sacrifices (BT Megillah 31b). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Having recently finished studying <\/span>Zevahim<\/span><\/em>, a talmudic tractate that I found to be absurdly difficult due to its arcane and complex topic of ritual sacrifice, I am strengthened by the notion that study provides some approximation of what the Torah may have envisioned when articulating this chapter.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":52084,"alt":"","title":"dt30-classic Talmud pic with women 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\"And I will be sanctified among the Children of Israel \u2026\" (Leviticus 22:32)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span>The sages whisper there's an inner room<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Which God may enter, lock the door and cry<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For all the innocents who sanctify<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His sacred name \u2014 for bottles of perfume<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Our enemies have smashed \u2014 for trees that bloom<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In early spring but by the autumn lie<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Upon the ground \u2014 for every butterfly<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>With splendid wings which ruthless frogs consume. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Where is this room? \u00a0I think I may have seen<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Its key although I can't recall the cup<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In which the key was placed; I have no clue<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To where it is, O Lord, concealed between<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The future and the past. \u00a0Please open up<\/span>
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  1. Eating at home.<\/em> The criterion for who shall eat of the sacred donations with the priests is who lives with them, and who is just a visitor. The case of the priest\u2019s daughter is especially telling. When she is married to a non-priest \u201cIf a priest\u2019s daughter marries a layman, she may not eat of the sacred gifts\u201d (verse 12). But if she becomes divorced or widowed, \u201cand is back in her father\u2019s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father\u2019s food\u201d (verse 13).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Plus 20%.<\/em> Not one of the ones entitled to eat of the sacred donations, and you did anyway? There is a prescribed course of action - see verse 14.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Exceptions.<\/em> Among the animals that have a blemish, there are exceptions, which can be sacrificed: \u201cYou may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep with a limb extended or contracted; but it will not be accepted for a vow\u201d (verse 23).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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