English: It is said here “salt of covenant” and there “covenant of eternal kehunah” — just as offerings are impossible without kehunah, so they are impossible without salt.
In the sugya: The shared term “covenant” equates the indispensability of salt with that of the priesthood.
Type of Learning
Gezerah of berit — salt is as indispensable as the kehunah.
What Is Learned
Salt is as indispensable to offerings as the priesthood. The parallel language of “covenant” teaches that just as no offering proceeds without a kohen, so no offering proceeds without salt.