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The Rambam counts eating as a Temple service. The priests sit down to a meal of sacrificial meat, and somewhere across Jerusalem, a stranger's slate is wiped clean. How can someone else's dinner be your atonement?
The Meal That Forgives
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About This Talk
Chapters 10 through 12 of Maaseh HaKorbanot map who eats each offering, where, and until when, the lashes that guard those boundaries, and the meal-offerings of flour that must never be allowed to rise. Together they reveal eating itself as avodah: the priest's table is an extension of the altar.