Is it possible to say that even Bird-offerings or Grain-offerings [may be included despite having no association with joy]?482See Pisqa’142.3. The Teaching states: “In your Feast” (Dt.16:14)— that is, rejoice with an offering from which the Festival-offering may be brought. This excludes Bird-offerings or Grain-offerings, from which the Festival-offering may not be brought.483//M. Hag. 1:4. Cf. Pisqa’ 63.1 and 142.3.
2. ”You, your son, your daughter, your slave, your slave-girl, the Levite, the migrant, or the fatherless and the widow, who is within your gates” (Dt.16:14)— [in this list of dependants,] the most favored take precedence.484See Pisqa’ 69.1.
(דברים טז יד) וְשָׂמַחְתָּ, בְּכָל מִינֵי שְׂמָחוֹת.
Pisqa’ 141 481H:181; JN1:337.
1. “And you shall rejoice” (Dt.16:14)—
with every type of
[offering that occasions] joy.
יָכוֹל אַף בְּעוֹפוֹת וּבִמְנָחוֹת? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: בְּחַגֶּךָ – בְּמַה שֶׁחֲגִיגָה בָּאָה מֵהֶם, יָצְאוּ עוֹפוֹת וּמְנָחוֹת שֶׁאֵין חֲגִיגָה בָּאָה מֵהֶם.
Is it possible to say that
even Bird-offerings or Grain-offerings
[may be included despite having no association with joy]?482See Pisqa’142.3.
The Teaching states:
“In your Feast” (Dt.16:14)—
that is, rejoice with an offering
from which the Festival-offering may be brought.
This excludes Bird-offerings or Grain-offerings,
from which the Festival-offering may not be brought.483//M. Hag. 1:4. Cf. Pisqa’ 63.1 and 142.3.
אַתָּה וּבִנְךָ וּבִתֶּךָ וְעַבְדְּךָ וַאֲמָתֶךָ וְהַלֵּוִי אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ – חָבִיב חָבִיב קוֹדֵם.
2. ”You, your son, your daughter, your slave, your slave-girl, the Levite, the migrant,
or the fatherless and the widow, who is within your gates” (Dt.16:14)—
[in this list of dependants,]
the most favored take precedence.484See Pisqa’ 69.1.