EXTRA 1 — Vayikra 2:10 · Sifra

Extra Credit · Toras Kohanim

The Complete Passuk

וְהַנּוֹתֶ֙רֶת֙ מִן־הַמִּנְחָ֔ה לְאַהֲרֹ֖ן וּלְבָנָ֑יו קֹ֥דֶשׁ קָֽדָשִׁ֖ים מֵאִשֵּׁ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃

And that which is left of the meal-offering shall be Aharon’s and his sons’; it is most holy of the fire-offerings of Hashem.

Source

Sifra (Toras Kohanim) on Vayikra 2:10 — not listed as a Torah Temimah unit on this passuk.

Sefaria — Sifra / Toras Kohanim

The Midrash (longer context)

Core Text
וְהַנּוֹתֶרֶת מִן־הַמִּנְחָה… — אֲפִלּוּ לֹא הֻמְלְחָה, אֲפִלּוּ לֹא הֻגְּשָׁה — חוּץ אִם לֹא הֻקְטַר מִלְּבוֹנָתָהּ כְּלוּם.

English: “And that which is left of the meal-offering…” — even if it was not salted, even if it was not presented [at the corner of the altar] — except if nothing of its frankincense was burned.

In Sifra: The right of the kohanim to eat the remainders is not lost for missing salt or missing presentation. Burning none of the levonah is different: then the remainders are not released for eating.

Type of Learning

R’ Eliezer #1 (ריבוי) / scope of “that which is left” — what defects still leave shirayim permitted.

What Is Learned

Priestly consumption of mincha remainders survives some procedural gaps (salt, presentation), but not the total absence of frankincense smoke.