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Someone asked "I was just reading Vayikra - Leviticus - Chapter 10 v18: "Behold, its blood was not brought into the Sanctuary within, so you should have surely eaten it within holy [precincts], as I commanded!" - What does it mean? Is it saying that blood can be eaten ? Thank you. No. Moses wasn't asking why they didn't drink blood. Moses is asking his brother, Aaron, why he did not eat a chatat / חַטָּאת / sin sacrifice as commanded by G-d. The law says it must be eaten by the kohanim (priests). Aaron (Moses' brother) was the first כהן גדול / kohein gadol / high priest) and his four sons − נָדָב / Nadav, אֲבִיהוּא / Avihu, אֶלְעָזָר / El'azar and אִיתָמָר / Itamar − were all "anointed" by Moses in the desert (Vayikra / Leviticus 8:12-13), with a special mixture of spice and olive oil that was used for “anointing” of kings and priests - meaning they were messiahs (anointed ones / mashiach). But in this instance they did not properly offer the sacrifice. In this instance the people's goat sin sacrifice was burnt -- not eaten. THAT is what Moses commanded be done with a sin sacrifice -- after it was properly brought it had to be cooked and eaten by the priests and the blood properly disposed of (that was slightly different depending on the actual type of sin sacrifice -- all explained in the written Torah)... It is forbidden to eat blood. Vayikra / Leviticus 3:17 This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood. Vayikra / Leviticus 7:26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. Vayikra / Leviticus 7:27 If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.' " Vayikra / Leviticus 17:10-11 If any person, whether of the family of Israel or a proselyte who joins them, eats any blood, I will direct My anger against the person who eats blood and cut him off [spiritually] from among his people. This is because the life-force of the flesh is in the blood; and I therefore gave it to you to be [placed] on the altar to atone for your lives. It is the blood that atones for a life, Vayikra / Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I say to the Israelites, "None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood." Vayikra / Leviticus 17:13 Any Israelite or any alien living among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, Vayikra / Leviticus 17:14 because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off." Translations are easily misunderstood. Moses is telling Aaron to do what he had commanded: properly bring a sin sacrifice, eat it in the proper area (this was dependent on the type of sacrifice) and then dispose of the blood properly (as it was forbidden to drink blood)... Read on in chapter 10 of Vayikra / Leviticus to understand the context: "And Moses diligently sought the goat of the chatat / חַטָּאת / sin offering, and behold, it was burnt [and not eaten]! So he was angry with El'azar / אֶלְעָזָר and Itamar / אִיתָמָר who were Aaron's surviving sons." Vayikra / Leviticus 10:16. Moses was mad that they had made an elevation / burnt offer and not an accidental mistake / sin sacrifice which is to be eaten. Some cḥatat are individual and some are communal. In this instance the qorban (offer / sacrifice) is communal -- the people's goat for רֹאשׁ חֹדֶשׁ / Rosh Chodesh / the New Month. The day in question was Rosh Chodesh Nisan - the first day of Nisan. Thus three sin-offering goats were sacrificed: a) “[Take] a he-goat [as a sin-offering]” (see Vayikra / Leviticus 9:3 and 15). Moses is mad because they did not eat this third sin sacrifice -- they burnt it. "'Why did you not eat the sin offering in a holy area? It is holy of holies, and has been given to you to remove the community's guilt and atone for them before G-d" Vayikra / Leviticus 10:17. Aaron's sons Nadav / נָדָב and Avihu / אֲבִיהוּא had brought an unauthorized sacrifice Vayikra / Leviticus chapter 10 verses 1 and 2, and were killed by G-d. There were three sin sacrifices to be brought and they brought two of them but burnt the third rather than properly sacrificing it as a sin offer.... Moses is not asking why Aaron and his remaining sons didn't drink the blood -- he is asking why they did not properly sacrifice and eat the third sin sacrifice as is commanded by law. "This is the law of the sin offering: The sin offering must be slaughtered before G-d in the same place that the burnt offering is slaughtered. It is holy of holies.... "any sin offering whose blood is brought into the Communion Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary MAY NOT BE EATEN. It must be burned in fire." Vayikra / Leviticus 6:18. 23. So again, Moses was mad and he said: "Why did you not eat the sin offering in a holy area? It is holy of holies, and has been given to you to remove the community's guilt and atone for them before G-d." Vayikra / Leviticus 10:17. He goes on to remind Aaron that this was a sin sacrifice and thus the meat should have been eaten by the priests within the proper location -- and the blood of the sacrifice brought into the sanctuary where the priest performs the required ritual to dispose of it. For example, the Rambam wrote: "The blood of all of the sin-offerings that are burnt is taken in the Temple building, and it is sprinkled there as described in the Torah. The remainder of the blood should be poured on the western base of the outer altar, [the one] that he encounters first when he leaves the Temple building." Aaron did not do this. Moses is asking why he (a) did not eat the meat as required and (b) did not dispose of the blood as required. "Aaron responded to Moses, 'Today, when they sacrificed their sin offering and burnt offering before G-d, such a [terrible tragedy] occurred to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been right in G-d's eyes? When Moses heard this, he approved." '" Verse 19 - 20. See the Talmud: דאי בקדשי דורות ק"ו ממעשר הקל ומה מעשר הקל אמרה תורה (דברים כו, יד) לא אכלתי באוני ממנו בקדשי דורות לא כל שכן" "As, if you claim that it also applies to the offerings of all generations, then one can prove this is not so via an a fortiori inference from the second tithe, for which the halakha is more lenient than for sacrificial meat: Just as with regard to the second tithe, for which the halakha is more lenient, the Torah stated: “I have not eaten thereof in my mourning [ve’oni]” (Deuteronomy 26:14), teaching that an acute mourner [onen] is prohibited from partaking of it, all the more so is it not clear that with regard to the offerings of all generations, an acute mourner is prohibited from partaking of them?” מיד (ויקרא י, כ) וישמע משה וייטב בעיניו הודה ולא בוש משה לומר לא שמעתי אלא אמר שמעתי ושכחתי" "Moses immediately conceded to Aaron, as the verse states: “And Moses heard, and it was good in his eyes” (Leviticus 10:20). And Moses was not embarrassed and did not attempt to justify himself by saying: I did not hear of this halakha until now. Rather, he said: I heard it, and I forgot it, as the verse indicates by stating: “Moses heard.” Talmud, Z'vachim 101a. The Chabad has an article discussing the types of sacrifices... link.
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