Offerings

Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, You shall make a basin of copper and [its] base of copper for washing. And you shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it. When they come into the Tent of Meeting they shall wash with water so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to serve, to burn a fire offering for Hashem. They shall wash their hands and their feet so that they not die. This shall be for them an eternal statute, for him and for his offspring for their generations. (Exodus 30:17–21) Hashem spoke to Moshe, saying, “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the olah offering. The olah offering shall be on the pyre of the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. And the kohen shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall remove the ashes that the fire has consumed of the olah offering on the altar and put them near the altar. Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a pure place. The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be extinguished. The kohen shall burn wood upon it every morning, and he shall arrange the olah offering on it and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. A continual fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not be extinguished.’” (Leviticus 6:1–6) May it be your will, Hashem, our God and the God of our fathers that you have compassion upon us and pardon us all our sins, atone for us all our iniquities, and forgive us for all our transgressions. May you rebuild the Holy Temple quickly in our days, so that we may offer to you the continual offering that it may atone for us as you have written for us in your Torah by the hand of Moshe, your servant, from your glorious mouth, as it is said: Hashem spoke to Moshe, saying,  “Command the Children of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’  And you shall say to them, ‘This is the food, the fire offering that you shall offer to Hashem: two male lambs a year old without blemish, daily, as a continual olah offering.  The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the second lamb you shall offer toward the evening, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten [olive] oil.  It is a continual olah offering, which was ordained on Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to Hashem.  Its libation shall be a quarter of a hin [of wine] for each lamb. In the Holy [Place] you shall pour out a libation of strong drink to Hashem.  The second lamb you shall offer toward evening. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its libation, you shall offer it as a fire offering for a pleasing aroma to Hashem. (Numbers 28:1–8) He shall slaughter it on the north side of the altar before Hashem, and Aaron’s sons, the kohanim, shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar, all around. (Lev. 1:11) May it be your will, Hashem our God and the God of our fathers, that this recitation be considered acceptable and favorable before you, as if we had offered the continual offering at its appointed time and in its place according to its laws. It is you, Hashem our God before whom our fathers burned the incense spices in the time when the Holy Temple stood, as you commanded them through Moshe your prophet, as it is written in your Torah: Hashem said to Moshe, “Take sweet spices — stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense — they shall be equal parts. You shall make it incense, the craft of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. You shall beat some of it very finely, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be a holy of holies for you. (Exodus 30:34–36) And Aaron shall burn incense spices on it. Every morning when he tends the lamps he shall burn it, and when Aaron sets up the lamps toward the evening, he shall burn it, a continual incense before Hashem throughout your generations. (Exodus 30:7,8)