What is the "Reishis Bikurei Admascha" to which the Torah is referring?
Rashi: It refers to the seven species listed in Eikev, Devarim (8:8), for which Eretz Yisrael is praised. 1
Wheat, barley, grapes, figs and pomegranates, olives and dates.
What are the connotations of "Reishis"?
Refer to 23:19:2:1 & 2.
What does the Mitzvah of Bikurim entail?
Refer to 23:19:4:1.
Why does the Torah insert the Mitzvah of Bikurim here?
Seforno: With reference to 34:18:2:1 - by the same token, giving Bikurim causes the fruit to grow successfully. 1
R. Bachye: As the Navi writes in Yechezkel 44:30 "ve'Reishis Kol Bikurei Kol ... Lehani'ch B'rachah el Beisecha!"
To which animals does "Lo Sevashel G'di ... " pertain?
Rashi: To all Kasher animals - since the word "G'di" incorporates every young tender animal. 1
Rashi: Which we learn from the fact that the Torah uses the term "G'di Izim" to describe a kid-goat. See Sifsei Chachamim.
What do we learn from the three times that the Torah repeats the La'av of "Lo Sevashel G'di ... "?
Rashi #1: To teach us the prohibition against cooking them together, eating them together and deriving benefit from them.
Rashi #2 (in Re'ei 14:21): To preclude the meat of a Chayah, of a bird and of a Beheimah Teme'ah - which are only Asur mi'de'Rabbanan.
Why does the Torah add the (otherwise superfluous) word "Lo Sevashel G'di ba'Chaleiv Imo"?
Rashi: To preclude a bird, (which does not have mother's milk), from the Isur, and which is only Asur mi'de'Rabanan.
What are the connotations of the La'av "Lo Sevashel G'di ba'Chalev Imo"?
Refer to 23:19:5:2-9.
Why does the Torah write specifically "G'di"?
Refer to 23:19:6:1-4.
Why does the Torah insert meat and milk here, in connection with the Yamim-Tovim?
Refer to 23:19:7:1.
Seforno: With reference to 34:26:3.1:1 - It juxtapose it to Bimurim to teach us tha Bikurim causes one's fruit to grow successfully, but not cooking meat together with milk - like the Nochrim who believed that i would bring success to their frit or to their flocks.
What is the connection between Bikurim and meat and milk?
Refer to 23:19:8:1-4 & 23:19:8:4*.
QUESTIONS ON RASHI
Rashi writes that one of the times that the Torah writes Basar be'Chalav is to forbid eating meat cooked in milk. Why do we not already know this from "Lo Sochal Kol To'evah"?
Refer to 23:19:151:1.
