Saying the Offering Before the Name of the LORD

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 3:1

Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai taught: From where do we learn that a person should not say "To the LORD a burnt-offering," "To the LORD a meal-offering," "To the LORD a peace-offering," but should rather say "A burnt-offering to the LORD," "A meal-offering to the LORD," "A peace-offering to the LORD"? The verse teaches, saying, "An offering to the LORD" (Leviticus 1:2). And are these matters not [derived by] an argument from the lighter to the heavier? If concerning one who is going to consecrate [an offering], the Torah said that the name of Heaven should not rest [upon the animal first] except [in connection] with bringing it as an offering — then one who is not going to consecrate anything at all, such as those who blaspheme and revile and worship idols, how much more so should they be blotted out from Heaven and from the world!

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