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The following three verses
all discuss the same waiving procedure
by the Priest. Note the alternation in the
underlined phrases:
- Verse Lv07-30a states
His own hands shall bring
the offerings of the Lord made by fire,
the fat on the breast,
he shall bring it,
that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.
- Verse Lv10-15b states
The offered shoulder and the waved breast
shall they bring on the offerings made
by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave
offering before the Lord; and it shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, by a statute forever; as the Lord has commanded.
- Verse Lv09-20a states
And they put the
fat on the breasts,
and he burned the fat upon the altar;
Rashi comments on the alternation
fat on breast vs.
breast on fat:
As can be clearly seen from the underlined
alternations
three different
people are involved
in the offering
and each one holds the offering differently
- the owner brings the fat of the animal
on the breast
(So the fat is above and the breast is below)
- the receiving priest
who receives the offered items from
the offerer performs the waiving ceremony
mentioned in the Bible
with the breast on top on
the fat on bottom.
The waiving priest delivers the
offered items to the
offering priest - that is, the priest
who offers these items on the altar.
- The offering priest has the
fat on top on the
breast on bottom.
Advanced Rashi: The above Rashi
based on a very delicate, but real, alignment
introduces many novel ideas about simple vs
homiletic meaning. On the one hand the primary
intention of the text is not to tell us about 3
players in the offering procedure - rather
the primary intention of the text is to tell us
about the offering itself. But the
aligned language of the text clearly
exposes and forces us to infer that there are
3 players - owner, receiving priest who
waives, offering priest - who offers the offering.
This distinction between primary intention of
the Biblical text and forced inferences,
is helpful in understanding the relation between
intended meaning, primary meaning
and homily. In our article
Biblical Formatting we compare the use
of alignment by the Biblical Author to the
use of footnotes by a modern author. A
footnote is intended, is not primary, but
is not homily. Similarly the alignment may
not be the primary meaning of the text but is an
intended meaning and not homily. A student of Rashi
who grasps this will find their acceptance of Rashi
superior.
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