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1) MOSHE'S BURIAL SITE

(a) The Romans asked the rulers of Beis Pe'or to show them Moshe's burial site. When they stood on the high place, it appeared to be below; when they stood below, it appeared to be above.

1. They split into 2 groups. To the ones above, it seemed to be below; to the ones below, it seemed to be above.

i. This fulfilled "No man knew the place of his burial".

(b) (R. Chama b'Rebbi Chanina): Even Moshe does not know the place of his burial - it says, "No man knew...", and Moshe is referred to "The man of Hash-m".
(c) Question (R. Chama b'Rebbi Chanina): Why was Moshe buried by Beis Pe'or?
(d) Answer (R. Chama b'Rebbi Chanina): To be an atonement for Yisrael's sin with Pe'or.
(e) Question (R. Chama b'Rebbi Chanina): How can one fulfill "You will go after Hash-m" - "Hash-m is a consuming fire"!
(f) Answer (R. Chama b'Rebbi Chanina): You go in Hash-m's ways.

1. Hash-m clothes the naked - "Hash-m made for Adam and his wife tunics of skin and clothed them" - you should also clothe the naked!
2. Hash-m visits the sick - "Hash-m appeared to him in Alonei Mamre" - you should also!
3. Hash-m consoles mourners - "After Avraham died, Hash-m blessed Yitzchak" - you should also!
4. Hash-m buries the dead - "He buried him in the valley" - you should also!
5. (Rav or Shmuel): "Tunics of skin" - something which is made from skin;
6. (The other of Rav and Shmuel): Something the skin benefits from.
7. (R. Simla'i): The beginning and end of Torah is bestowing Chesed.

i. The beginning - "Hash-m made for Adam and his wife tunics of skin and clothed them."
ii. The end - "He buried him in the valley."

(g) Rhetorical question (R. Simla'i): Why did Moshe want to enter Eretz Yisrael - to eat the fruit, or to be satiated from its bounty?!
(h) Answer: Rather, to fulfill the many Mitzvos which only apply in Eretz Yisrael.

1. Hash-m: You want to receive the reward - I credit you as if you fulfilled them - "Therefore I apportion to him with the great, and with the awesome he will share the spoils, since he poured out his soul to die, and with sinners he is counted, and he bore the sin of the many, and for the sinners he Mafgi'a (requests)."
2. "Therefore I apportion to him among the great" - one might have thought, as the later Tzadikim, not as the early ones - "And with the awesome he will share the spoils", with Avraham, Yitzchak and Yakov, who were awesome in Torah and Mitzvos.
3. "Since he poured out his soul to die" - he gave himself over to die - "If (you will not forgive them), blot me out".
4. "With sinners he is counted" - he is counted among those that died in the wilderness.
5. "He bore the sin of the many" - He atoned for the sin of the golden calf.
6. "For the sinners he requests" - he requested mercy for the sinners of Yisrael, that they should repent.

i. Mafgia is a language of prayer - "Do not pray for the nation ... do not TiFGA me".

2) THE OFFERING OF A SOTAH

(a) (Mishnah): The husband would bring her Minchah in a basket made of palm twigs; he put it in her hands, to weary her.
(b) All other Menachos (flour-offerings) are in a service vessel from the beginning until the end; this one starts in a basket of palm branches and ends in a service vessel.
(c) All other Menachos require oil and frankincense; this one requires neither.
(d) All other Menachos come from wheat; this one comes from barley.

1. The Minchah of the Omer (the communal flour-offering of the 2nd day of Pesach), even though it comes from barley, comes finely sifted; this comes as mixed flour.

(e) R. Gamliel says, just as her actions are those of an animal, also her offering is animal food.
(f) (Gemara - Beraisa - Aba Chanan): (The offering is put in her hands) to weary her, so she will confess.

1. If the Torah is so concerned for transgressors - all the more so, for those that do Hash-m's will!

(g) Question: How do we know that the Torah is concerned for her - perhaps the concern is that Hash-m's name should not be erased!

(h) Answer: He holds, she drinks before offering the sacrifice.

1. If the concern was to avoid erasing Hash-m's name - we would not weary her after it has been erased!

(i) (Mishnah): All Menachos ...
(j) Contradiction (Beraisa): The procedure of a Minchah: a man brings the offering from his house in a silver or gold basket, and puts it in a service vessel, and sanctifies it in a service vessel;

1. He puts its oil and frankincense on it, and brings it to the Kohen; the Kohen takes it to the altar, and brings it close to the southwest corner, at the edge; this suffices.
2. He removes the frankincense to 1 side, and takes a Kometz (the amount that fits in his 3 middle fingers when curled into his palm) from a place where the oil was absorbed well; he puts the Kometz in a service vessel, and sanctifies it in a service vessel;
3. He takes the frankincense and puts it on the Kometz; he takes it up and burns it in a service vessel, he salts it and puts it on the fire;
4. After the Kometz is offered, the remainder of the Minchah may be eaten; the Kohanim may mix it with wine, oil, and honey; the only prohibition is to ferment it (make it Chametz).

(k) (Summation of contradiction): The Beraisa says that he takes the offering from his house in a silver or gold basket (not a service vessel)!
(l) Answer (Rav Papa): The Mishnah means, other Menachos begin in a vessel fitting to be a service vessel.

1. We infer, a basket of palm branches is unfit to be a service vessel.

(m) Suggestion: The Mishnah is not as R. Yosi b'Rebbi Yehudah.

1. (Rebbi): A service vessel made of wood is invalid; R. Yosi b'Rebbi Yehudah permits this.

(n) Rejection: The Mishnah is even as R. Yosi b'Rebbi Yehudah - he only allows wooden vessels of quality.

1. R. Yosi b'Rebbi Yehudah certainly agrees, "Offer this to your governor" (something unacceptable to offer to an official may not be offered to Hash-m)!

(a) (Beraisa): He puts it in a service vessel, and sanctifies it in a service vessel.

1. Suggestion: We learn, a service vessel only sanctifies its contents when they are put in it with that intention.
2. Rejection: No - the Beraisa means, he puts it a service vessel, so it (automatically) becomes sanctified in the service vessel.

(b) (Beraisa): He puts its oil and frankincense on it and brings it to the Kohen; the Kohen takes it to the altar.

1. The Torah explicitly says so.

(c) (Beraisa): He brings it close to the southwest corner, at the edge; this suffices.
(d) Question: What is the source for this?
(e) Answer: "... the Kohanim will offer it in front of Hash-m, to the face of the altar."

1. (Beraisa): "In front of Hash-m" - one might have thought, on the west side - the Torah says, "to the face of the altar";
2. If "to the face of the altar", one might have thought, on the south side - the Torah says, "in front of Hash-m";

i. The resolution is, he brings it close to the southwest corner, at the edge; this suffices;

3. R. Elazar says, one might have thought, he may bring it close to the west side of the corner, or to the south side of the corner - this is not so;

i. Whenever there are 2 verses, if we fulfill the 1st, we can also fulfill the 2nd; but fulfilling the 2nd will not allow fulfilling the 1st - we fulfill the 1st, so we can also fulfill the 2nd.

4. If we fulfill "In front of Hash-m" - in the west - we neglect "to the face of the altar";
5. If we fulfill "to the face of the altar" - in the south - we can also fulfill "in front of Hash-m";

i. This is done by bringing it to the south side of the corner.

6. Question: How does this fulfill "in front of Hash-m"?
7. Answer (Rav Ashi): R. Elazar holds that the altar is entirely in the north (so the south side faces the Heichal).

(f) Question: What does the Beraisa mean, 'this suffices'?
(g) Answer (Rav Ashi): One might have thought, one must tilt the vessel to make the Minchah itself touch the altar - we hear, this is not so.

1. Suggestion: Maybe this really is required!
2. Rejection: "He will bring it to the Kohen ... he will bring it near the altar".

i. Just as it is brought to the Kohen in a vessel, also it is brought near the altar in a vessel.

(h) (Beraisa): He removes the frankincense to 1 side.

1. This is so the Kometz should not include any frankincense.

i. (Mishnah): If he took a Kometz, and this included a pebble or grain of sand or a drop of frankincense, the Kometz is invalid.

(i) (Beraisa): He takes a Kometz from a place where the oil was absorbed well.

1. We learn from "From its fine flour and its oil"; "From its fine barley-flour and its oil".

(j) (Beraisa): He puts the Kometz in a service vessel, and sanctifies it in a service vessel.
(k) Question: Why must it be sanctified - it was already sanctified!
(l) Answer: A 2nd sanctified is required, as we find by blood.

1. Even though the knife sanctified the blood at the time of slaughter, one sanctifies the blood again by putting it in a service vessel; the same applies to the Kometz.

(m) (Beraisa): He takes the frankincense and puts it on the Kometz.

1. We learn from "And all the frankincense on the Minchah."