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Vayikra: Rashi Interpretation of the Timing of the Squeezing of the Bird

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

An analysis of Rashi's interpretation of the timing of the bird's squeezing in Vayikra.

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  1. 0:00I want to draw your attention to a possuk in this week's parsha that Rashi says…
  2. 0:30tes vav. Let's translate. And the kohain will offer to the mizbayach. This is talking about…
  3. 1:04the kohain will squeeze out its blood after he burns it? That's not the order. The…
  4. 1:37ba'atzmo, just like when you burn it the head is by itself and the body is…
  5. 2:09the Torah wrote it this way to juxtapose burning to melikah. It says Rashi, the simple…
  6. 2:41of Rav Aaron Laib Piatzky he brings from what he calls al pi diyukim that the…
  7. 3:15venimtzah damo al ker hamizbayach. But he brings that phrase is enclosed with a tipcha and…
  8. 3:46And this supports Rashi's reading that this is in fact a mikra mesuras. This enclosed caption…
  9. 4:19We want to juxtapose umalakh to vehektir. But the vehektir really should be at the end…

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