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And the Lord said to Moses,
Take to you sweet spices,
- drippy spice (storax), and
- shiny spice (onycha), and
- fatty spice (galbanum);
these sweet spices with pure frankincense
Rashi explains that
- Storax is called drippy spice because it is typically obtained when it oozes from the tree;
- onycha is called shiny spice because of its shiny appearance; I would therefore extend Rashi's method and explain:
- Galbanum is called fatty spice because it smells bad like putrid fat.
Rashi makes symbolic inferences from the use of a bad smelling fatty spice in the sweet incense:
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We can extend Rashi's symbolism as follows:
- The shiny spice obviously symbolically refers to a shiny flashy person who is always conspicuous and showing off;
- We have just seen that the fatty spice symbolizes foul-smelling people, people who are bad. Since you become fat by always indulging perhaps the fatty spice symbolizes indulgers; and
- Finally the drippy spice would refer to a stately person who does things drop by drop (bit by bit) and not hurriedly.
Together, the three spice types listed in Ex30-34--the drippy, fatty, and shiny---would correspond to three basic types of people: the stately, the indulgers and the flashy people. We could say more but the
just-stated explanation gives the flavor of how Rashi's symbolism can be understood and extended in
a natural way.
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