A3 My reading of this is that too many of the Israelites are inclined to go play around with or start munching on the sacred offerings, and the priests are being alerted to look out for people who are straying too near the ceremonial table holding the offerings. #ParshaChat
This has me also wondering if all of the sacramental offerings were SAFE to be consumed. The charred to ash ones, clearly not, and the ones intended for priests to eat, clearly yes; but ... #ParshaChat
what if there was a muddy middle ground for some that are only safe once you've built up tolerance to a poison from the wood smoke or something like that? #ParshaChat
If that was the concern, it seems to me that there would be no issue with a girl who grew up eating them continuing to eat them after marrying a layman. #ParshaChat
Unless they didn't understand the why behind the rule? Also, were the girls ever allowed to eat them? Or did they restrict certain parts only to the sons who might grow up to be priests, since the girls would not become a priest? #ParshaChat
Unmarried girls and widows who returned to their fathers' house did, yes. #ParshaChat bsky.app/profile/ruti...
One of the things I'm thinking about a lot lately is how if they made a rule to not do something, that implies that folk were doing it and needed the rule to make it more clear. Leviticus is all about the rules, & I'm thinking about what the rules imply about the behaviors #ParshaChat
That you, I'd missed this. #ParshaChat
That was supposed to say "thank you" #ParshaChat
A3: That seems very plausible to me as an interpretation! Do you have a sense of why they might want to do that and why it might be important to stop them? #ParshaChat
A3 Some people when they see a table filled with food are inclined to sample a morsel on the sly. #ParshaChat