Why does the Torah add "Ki vo Bachar Hashem"?
Seforno: 'It is befitting that you provide the Kohen with food and clothes to enable him to stand and serve before Hashem'.
"ki vo Bachar Hashem ? La'amod Leshareis". What are the connotations of "La'amod Leshareis"?
Chulin, 137a: We learn from "Leshareis" that Reishis ha'Gez only applies to the wool of sheep, which is fit for the Avodah - in the form of Techeiles in the Bigdei Kehunah - to preclude goats'-hair. Consequently, any Korban whose blood the Kohen received in a bowl sitting is Pasul. 1
Chulin, 138a: We learn from "Leshareis" that the minimum amount of wool that one should give the Kohen is enough to make a belt for the Bigdei Kehunah, for the Avodah. 2
Why does the Torah insert the word "La'amod Le'shareis"?
Rashi #1: "La'amod" teaches us that Kohanim must perform the Avodah standing (and we learn from "ke'Chol Echav ha'Kohanim ha'Omdim Sham"in Pasuk 7 that it is crucial to the Avodah - Zevachim, 23b). 1
Rashi #2 (Yoma, 25a): "La'amod Le'shareis" and "ha'Omdim Sham" (in Pasuk 7) teaches us that sitting in the Azarah is prohibitted.
Chulin, 137a: We learn from "Leshareis" that Reishis ha'Gez only applies to the wool of sheep, which is fit for the Avodah - in the form of Techeiles in the Bigdei Kehunah - to preclude goats'-hair. Consequently, any Korban whose blood the Kohen received in a bowl sitting is Pasul. 2
Chulin, 138a: We learn from "Leshareis"that the minimum amount of wool that one should give the Kohen is enough to make a belt for the Bigdei Kehunah, for the Avodah. 3
"La'amod Leshareis be'She Hashem Hashm". What are the connotations of the term "be'Shem Hashem".
R. Bachye: It refers to Midas ha'Din - which is equivalent to the Shechinah, 1 and which is synonymous with Hashem's Name of forty-two 2 letters. 3 4
Which is how Targum Onkelos always translates the word ?Shemi' ("Sh'm" or "Sh'mo" - See R. Chavel's footnotes).
See R. Chavel's footnotes DH ?ki ha'Yom ? ?.
R. Bachye: Which supports the fact that the Kohen Gadol mentioned the forty-two letter Name on Yom Kipur, which is a day of Rachamm ba'Din. See R. Chavel's footnotes DH ?'u'mi'Ka'an Samach'.
See R. Bachye who elaborates further and R. Chavel's footnotes DH ?ke'Minyan'.
Why does the Torah add the words "Kol ha'Yamim"?
Sifri: To include the Avodah of Chutz la'Aretz - Birchas Kohanm - in the Din of standing. -
