(Lev. 24:10:) “Now there went out the son of an Israelite woman.” From where did he go out?<sup class="footnote-marker">103</sup><i class="footnote">Lev. R. 32:3.</i> R. Levi says, “He went out from his world, just as it is stated (in I Sam. 17:4), ‘And there went out a champion.’”<sup class="footnote-marker">104</sup><i class="footnote">I.e., Goliath, who was about to leave this world.</i> R. Berekhyah said, “He went out from the preceding <i>Parashah</i>, where it is written (in Lev. 24:5), ‘Then you shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves.’ He said, ‘It is customary for a king to eat warm bread. Would [he eat it] cold?’” It is like that which we learn there (in the latter part of <i>Men</i>. 11:9), “The shewbread was eaten no earlier than the ninth day [after baking] and no later than the eleventh day. How so? It was baked on the eve of the Sabbath and eaten on the Sabbath [of the following week, i.e.,] on the ninth day. [If] a holiday happened to fall on the eve of the Sabbath, it was eaten on the tenth. [In the case of] the two-day holiday of the new year, it was eaten on the eleventh, for [the baking] overrides neither the Sabbath nor a holiday. R. Simeon b. Gamaliel says in the name of R. Simeon the son of the Assistant [High Priest], ‘[The baking] overrides a holiday but does not override the fast day.’”<sup class="footnote-marker">105</sup><i class="footnote">The Day of Atonement.</i> (According the first part of Men. 11:9,) the two loaves of bread [offered at Pentecost] were eaten no earlier than the second day and no later than the third. How so? They were baked on the eve of the festival [of Pentecost and] eaten on the festival, [i.e.,] on the second day. If the festival happened to fall on the day after the Sabbath, they were eaten on the third day.
Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 23
Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team
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