bikkurim

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. We re-visit Bikkurim; the offering of the First Fruits to the priest. We explore the development of this parsha from its ancient beginnings where it excluded everyone besides a male landowner through Rabbinic literature up until the present where it is used to accommodate converts and gender differences.

Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/507524

Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/08/30/read-it-till-the-end/

First Fruits or Bikkurim is after Passover and before Pentecost or Shavuot, 7 weeks or 50 days. The wave offering is a Korban or qorban, how does this relate to our day in reference to Christianity? The wave offering is a very important offering among all the offerings of the priesthood offered to God. Since there is no Temple or Levitical Priesthood, it makes a lot of sense but what does this offering actually mean? How is this offering a tithe? 

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