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4,096. All the Different Communal and Individual Offerings

Hilchos Maasei Hakarbanos 1:5

The communal offerings are: the korban tamid, offered twice daily; the additional musaf offerings brought on Shabbos, rosh chodesh and yom tov; the goat sin offering brought on Yom Kippur. Also, if the Sanhedrin accidentally issued an erroneous ruling in a matter of idolatry, each Tribe would bring a bull as a burnt offering and a goat as a sin offering. The goats were called “the goats of idolatry.” If the Sanhedrin accidentally issued an erroneous ruling regarding some other mitzvah, they brought a bull as a sin offering. This was called “the bull for overlooking a communal matter.”

Hilchos Maasei Hakarbanos 1:6

The offerings of individuals include: the firstborn animals; animal tithes; the korban Pesach; the korban chagigah, which was a peace offering brought on Festivals; the pilgrimage gift, which is a burnt offering; the offering of a convert, which is an animal burnt offering and two pigeons or doves as burnt offerings, or an animal as a burnt offering and another animal as a peace offering; the burnt offering or peace offering of one who vows or pledges an offering; peace offerings brought with bread, which are called thanksgiving offerings; a nazir’s offering, which includes a burnt offering, a sin offering and a peace offering; a metzora’s offering, which includes a sin offering, a guilt offering and a burnt offering; the offerings of a zav, a zavah and a women who has given birth, which are a sin offering and a burnt offering; the offering of someone who unwittingly violated a Torah prohibition that would be punished with kareis (spiritual excision) if done intentionally, which is a sin offering; the conditional guilt offering, which was brought by someone who was unsure as to whether or not he had committed a violation; the definite guilt offering, which was brought for particular transgressions. Also, the ram for a burnt offering and the bull that the Kohein Gadol personally brings as a sin offering on Yom Kippur are likewise individual offerings, the bull being called “the Yom Kippur bull.” All these offerings are explicit in the Torah and each one’s laws will be discussed in the proper places.

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