Ascent and Grain Offerings
Torah Papers | April 06, 2025
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Ascent and Grain Offerings

Torah Papers | June 27, 2025

Likewise, with regard to any priest who is similarly fit to offer up a person’s ascent-offering: that priest is included in the division of the hide of any ascent-offering that he or any other priest has offered up; he receives a portion of it.

With regard to any grain-offering baked in an oven or any grain-offering made in a deep frying pan or in a shallow frying pan, the priest who is fit to offer it up is included in its division; he receives a portion of it.

However, not all fit priests are included in the division of the priests’ portions: any grain-offering, whether it must be mixed with oil (referring to all the voluntary grain-offerings) or be dry (referring to the grain-offering of a sinner, or, as will be described later, that of a suspected adulteress, to which oil must not be added) will belong to all the sons of Aaron assigned to serve that day, each individual priest receiving a portion like the other.

Likewise, with regard to any priest who is similarly fit to offer up a person’s ascent-offering: that priest is included in the division of the hide of any ascent-offering that he or any other priest has offered up; he receives a portion of it.

With regard to any grain-offering baked in an oven or any grain-offering made in a deep frying pan or in a shallow frying pan, the priest who is fit to offer it up is included in its division; he receives a portion of it.

However, not all fit priests are included in the division of the priests’ portions: any grain-offering, whether it must be mixed with oil (referring to all the voluntary grain-offerings) or be dry (referring to the grain-offering of a sinner, or, as will be described later, that of a suspected adulteress, to which oil must not be added) will belong to all the sons of Aaron assigned to serve that day, each individual priest receiving a portion like the other.

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