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The Sacrifice of the Old Covenant (painting by Peter Paul Rubens). Parashat Vayikra, VaYikra, Va-yikra, Wayyiqra, or Wayyiqro (וַיִּקְרָא —Hebrew for "and He called," the first word in the parashah) is the 24th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Leviticus.
A meal offering (minchah) is of choice flour with oil, from which priest will remove a token portion to burn on the altar, and the remainder the priests can eat. Meal offerings cannot contain leaven or honey, and are to be seasoned with salt. Meal offerings of first fruits are new ears parched with fire or grits of the fresh grain.
leviticus 1 God calls to Moses from the Tabernacle and tells him the laws of the sacrifices ( korbanot ). A burned offering (' olah ) can be a bull , ram , male goat , turtle dove or pigeon , which the priest burns completely on wood on the altar .
Meal offerings of first fruits had to be new ears parched with fire, grits of the fresh grain. Sacrifices of well-being could be male or a female cattle, sheep, or goats, from which the priest would dash the blood on the sides of the altar and burn the fat around the entrails, the kidneys , and the protuberance on the liver on the altar.
Rules of burnt offerings, meal offerings, peace offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings, including specifications of the portions allocated to priests, and, in some cases, the appropriate costume of the officiating priest (Leviticus 1-7:21, carried out at Leviticus 9) Ritual of cleansing lepers (Leviticus 14) Rule of fringes (Leviticus 15 ...
The basis for the mitzvah of semicha is Leviticus 1:4: And he shall lay [ samach ] his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. It is also mentioned in Leviticus 4:24 with regard to the laying on of hands over one's sin-offering , before it was slaughtered: "And he shall lay his hand ...
A Midrash deduced the importance of peace from the way that the listing of the individual sacrifices in Leviticus 6–7 concludes with the peace offering. Leviticus 6:2–6 gives "the law of the burnt-offering," Leviticus 6:7–11 gives "the law of the meal-offering," Leviticus 6:18–23 gives "the law of the sin-offering," Leviticus 7:1–7 ...
A meal offering, grain offering, or gift offering (Biblical Hebrew: מנחה, minkhah), is a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically a sacrifice that did not include sacrificial animals. In older English it is sometimes called an oblation , from Latin.