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2 โ[1] ืืืื ืื ืืงืืฅ [AND HE SHALL BRING UNTO โฆ] THE PRIESTS: AND HE SHALL TAKE A FISTFUL โ from the ืงืืืฆื (the taking of the fistful) and onwards is the duty of the priesthood (Menachot 9a).
โ[2] ืืงืืฅ ืืฉื AND HE SHALL TAKE A FISTFUL FROM THERE โ from the place where the feel of the layman may stand; and this is stated in order to teach you that the ืงืืืฆื is valid at whatever place in the fore-court it is carried out, even in that eleven cubits) which are the area where the feet of the ordinary Israelites may tread (cf. Yoma 16b).
โ[3] ืืื ืงืืฆื HIS FISTFUL โ One might think that it (the fist) may be full to overflowing โ that it may burst through his fist and come out on every side! Scripture, however, states in another passage, (Leviticus 6:8) โand he shall take from it in his closed hand [some of the flour โฆ and burn it on the altar)โ, which shows that only that is fitted to be burnt which is within his closed hand. If, then, he has to take what is ืืงืืฆื, within his closed hand, one might assume that it may be defective (underfull)? Scripture, however, states here, ืืื, โhis full [closed hand]โ. How then does he do it that it shall be neither overfull nor underfull? After placing his hand in the vessel containing the meal-offering he (the priest) bends his three fingers (those next to his thumb) at full length over on to the palm of his hand, removing with his thumb and little finger all the flour that shows outside these three fingers. This is the literal meaning that the word ืงืืฅ has in the Hebrew language (Sifra, Vayikra Dibbura d'Nedavah, Section 9 6; Menachot 11a; Yoma 47a).
โ[4] โ ืขื ืื ืืื ืชืโโ [HIS FISTFUL OF FLOUR โฆ] BESIDES ALL THE FRANKINCENSE โ i. e. apart from all the frankincense shall his fist be full.
โ[5] ืืื ืชื ืืืงืืืจ ITS FRANK-INCENSE. AND HE SHALL BURN โ The frankincense too comes under the law of burning (cf. Sifra, Vayikra Dibbura d'Nedavah, Section 9 10).
โ[6] ืืื ืงืืฆื ืืกืืชื ืืืฉืื ื [AND HE SHALL TAKE THEREOUT] HIS HANDFUL OF THE FLOUR THEREOF AND OF THE OIL THEREOF โ Consequently if when he takes the handful of the flour a grain of salt (for salt was mingled with every offering; cf. v. 13) or a particle of frankincense comes into his hand with the flour it (the offering) is invalid (Sifra, Vayikra Dibbura d'Nedavah, Section 9 10; Menachot 6a).
โ[7] ืืืืจืชื THE MEMORIAL PORTION THEREOF โ The handful of flour that is offered to the Most High God forms the memorial portion of the meal-offering, being that part of it through which the owner is remembered for good and for having caused satisfaction to the Lord.
Version: Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH001969084
License: Public Domain