The Thanksgiving Offering That Endures When All Others Cease

Pesikta DeRav Kahana 9:12

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"And when you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted" (Leviticus 22:29). Rabbi Pinchas, Rabbi Levi, and Rabbi Yochanan in the name of Rabbi Menachem of Gallia: In the future to come all the offerings will be abolished, but the thanksgiving offering will never be abolished; all the thanksgivings will be abolished, but the thanksgiving of the thanksgiving offering will never be abolished. This is what is written: "The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those saying, Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for His mercy endures forever" (Jeremiah 33:11), these are the thanksgivings. "And those who bring a thanksgiving offering to the house of the LORD" (ibid.), this is the thanksgiving offering. And so David says, "Upon me, O God, are Your vows; I will pay" (Psalms 56:13). It is not written there "a thanksgiving to You," but rather "I will pay thank offerings to You" (ibid.), thanksgiving and a thanksgiving offering. The end.

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