The Peace Offering in Which Everyone Receives a Share

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 458:2

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Another interpretation: "peace-offerings" (shelamim) - that all are made whole (meshulamim) through them: the blood and the fats go to the altar, the breast and the thigh to the priests, the hide and the flesh to the owners.

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SacrificePriesthoodTemple

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