Wednesday 4 July 2018

Special Requests in the Torah Imply that Something Should be Different from Usual

Very brief notes on today's daf, which elaborates on Rabbi Akiva's ruling yesterday:
  • the pasuk in Vayikra mentions a sin offering in particular
  • how can this be applied to anything else?
  • Rav Yehuda in the name of Shmuel tells the story of a student who serves his rabbi wine diluted with hot water; the rabbi asks for an another glass and that special request implies that something new should be added to the glass of wine
  • The student would have served the same thing again if the rabbi made no request
  • This relates to a sin offering as named in Vayikra - the Torah says - as a "special request" that the law applies to any sin offering
  • Because it is a "special request", and would normally be read without further interpretation, we know that the law applies to all sacrifices

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