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Trespass 8 · Paschal Offering 1-2
Sefer Avodah into Sefer Korbanot · The last guardrails around consecrated property, then the one offering that must be named over while it lives and eaten by a company
3
Groups the Paschal offering is slaughtered in
30
Fewest people permitted in a group
24
Thumbbreadths to a cubit when Temple work is measured
14
Nisan, after midday, the one appointed day
ME 8Wages, salt, and the last word of Sefer Avodah
- Hired hands may not eat the sacred fruit. Workers in consecrated orchards may not eat consecrated figs even though food was part of their terms; the treasury must give them money to buy food instead. (8:1)
- Holiness moves onto money, never onto labor. A craftsman owed a maneh may not be paid with a consecrated animal or garment; the holiness must first be transferred to money, and only the now ordinary article may become his wages. (8:3)
- Build the Temple from ordinary property. Consecrated wood and stone are not used and the structure is not built with consecrated intent, lest a worker enjoy its shade or lean on a beam; the holiness of the funds is transferred to the building only once it is finished. (8:4)
- Twenty in the contract, twenty four in the measure. Builders are hired at so many selaim per cubit reckoned at 20 thumbbreadths, and the finished work is measured at 24 thumbbreadths to the cubit, so the workers take no unfair benefit from the treasury. (8:5)
RememberSefer Avodah ends by guarding a pinch of salt and a patch of shade, then tells you the sacrifices are all decrees.
KP 1The day, the place, and the three groups
- One day, one kind of animal. The Paschal offering is brought on the fourteenth of Nisan after midday, from lambs or goats only, a male in its first year, and men and women alike are obligated. (1:1)
- Never on a private altar. It may be slaughtered only in the Temple Courtyard, and even in the era when private high places were permitted it was never offered on an individual altar; one who does is liable for lashes. (1:3)
- Before midday it is void, before the tamid it is not. Slaughtered before midday it is unacceptable; slaughtered after midday but before the afternoon daily offering it is acceptable, and the blood is stirred so it will not congeal until the daily offering's blood has been cast. (1:4)
- Chametz brings lashes, not disqualification. One who slaughters while an olive-sized portion of chametz is in his possession, or in the possession of a member of the company, is liable for lashes, yet the sacrifice itself is acceptable. (1:5)
- Three groups, thirty apiece. It is offered in three groups of no fewer than 30 people, the gates locked behind each while the Levites recite the Hallel. (1:9, 1:11)
RememberThe one offering that was never once permitted to be brought privately, in any era.
KP 2The company, and who may be counted in
- Named over while it lives. It may be slaughtered only for the sake of those enumerated upon it, and the enumeration must be made while the animal is alive; those named are the members of the company. (2:1)
- Fitness is an olive-sized portion. Only those able to eat an olive's worth may be counted; even in a company of a hundred, a single person who cannot eat that much may not be enumerated among them. (2:3)
- A mixed crowd at the slaughter does not spoil it. If it was slaughtered for those who can eat and those who cannot, for the enumerated and the unenumerated, for circumcised and uncircumcised, pure and impure, it is acceptable, and the fit ones eat as the law prescribes. (2:5)
- Withdraw before the knife, not after. A person may enroll himself and remove himself right up until the slaughter; once it is slaughtered he may not, for it was slaughtered on his behalf. (2:14)
RememberAn olive's worth is the whole entrance requirement, and your name has to be spoken while it breathes.