One Law for Every Meal Offering with Oil and Frankincense

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 484:5

(Leviticus 6:7) "And this is the law of the meal-offering" — for the eternal House. "This" — it does not apply on a private high place. "This is the law of the meal-offering" — one law for all meal-offerings, that they require oil and frankincense. And from where did they emerge as needing this? From the general statement, as it is said "and he shall pour oil upon it and place frankincense upon it." (Leviticus 2:3) "And what is left of the meal-offering shall be for Aaron and his sons": one might think that only a meal-offering whose remnants are eaten requires oil and frankincense; a meal-offering whose remnants are not eaten, from where? Scripture says "the law of the meal-offering," one law for all meal-offerings, that they require oil and frankincense. Rabbi Akiva said: if we have found that Scripture did not distinguish, regarding the prohibition of giving, between the sinner's meal-offering of an Israelite and the sinner's meal-offering of priests, so too let us not distinguish, regarding giving, between the freewill meal-offering of an Israelite and the freewill meal-offering of priests. Rabbi Chananyah ben Yehudah said to him: what proof is this? You derive a positive command from a negative command! Scripture therefore says "the law of the meal-offering," one law for all meal-offerings, that they require oil and frankincense. "He shall offer it" — when it is fit, and not when it is unfit. "It" — all of it as one. "The sons of Aaron" — and not the daughters of Aaron.

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