The and the Grain Offering

[The husband] brings her meal offering in a basket of palm twigs and places it upon her hands in order to weary her. With all other meal offerings, their beginning and their end are in ministering vessels, but with this, its beginning is in a basket of palm twigs and its end in a ministering vessel. All other meal offerings require oil and frankincense, but this requires neither oil nor frankincense. All other meal offerings come from wheat, but this comes from barley. The meal offering of the omer, although it comes from barley, was in the form of sifted flour, but this comes from unsifted flour. Rabban Gamaliel says: Just as her actions were the actions of an animal, so her offering [consisted of] animal’s fodder.

Adapted from the translation ofJoshua Kulp.