What are the implications of "Yih'yeh Zeh Li le'Doroseichem"?
Rashi and Seforno: It teaches us that all of the Shemen ha'Mishchah will remain intact 1 (until the time of Mashi'ach. 2
Kerisus, 5b: We learn from the Gezeirah Shavah "Doros" "Doros" from the jar of Manna - in Beshalach, 16:32 - that, when the Aron was hidden, so was the crucible of Shemen ha'Mishchah.
See Torah Temimah, note 53, who explains that the Limud is either from the word "Li" or from a combination of "Zeh" and "le'Doroseichem". See also Oznayim la'Torah, who, citing the Tanchuma, learns it from the word 'Li".
Refer to 30:24:1:1*. Moshav Zekenim (in Vayikra 8:10, citing Kerisus 5b): This was a great miracle. It was diminished through absorptions of the species or pot, anointing the Mishkan, its Kelim, Aharon and his children all seven days of the Milu'im, all later Kohanim Gedolim and (some) kings (until the oil was placed in Genizah).
"Shemen Mishchas Kodesh Yih'yeh Zeh Li?. Why did the Torah write ?Yih?yeh ? Li? and not ?Yih?yeh ? le?Aharon? ? like it did in 29:29, in connection with the Bigdei Kehunah?
Ramban and R. Bachye: To incorporate in the use of the Shemen ha?Mishchah the kings ? who were not sons of Aharon, but who fell under the heading of Mashi?ach Hashem. 1
Ramban and R. Bachye: Hence the Pasuk writes in Tehilim 89:21 ?Matzasi David Avdi be?Shemen Kodshi Meshachtiv? ? ?with the oil which is the holy anointing (il) for Me?.
Why does the Parshah of the Shemen ha?Mishchah precede the Parshah of the Ketores?
R. Bachye: Because they represent the beginning (the first Sefirah ? Keser) 1 2 and the end (the last Sefirah ? Malchus ? the second ?Hey? in the Name Havayah), respectively. 3 4
R. Bachye: And oil is the most elevated of all the liquids.
R. Bachye) Incorporating the first five Sefiros.
R. Bachye: Which explains why the Shemen ha?Mishchah comprises five basic ingredients and the Ketores, nine ? See R. Bachye and R. Chavel?s footnotes.
R. Bachye: It aso explains why the Torah writes ?Vayedaber? by the Shemen ha?Mishchah and ?Vayomer? by the Ketores. See R. Chavel?s footnotes.
