In The Liturgy
The Mussaf (“additional”) prayer commemorates the special communal offerings that Numbers 28–29 instruct the priests to make on days of enhanced holiness.
After the morning blessings, some Jews recite the description of the continual (תָמִיד, Tamid) offering in Numbers 28:1–8 among other descriptions of offerings.
The laws of the daily offering in Numbers 28:2 provide an application of the second of the Thirteen Rules for interpreting the Torah in the Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael that many Jews read as part of the readings before the Pesukei d’Zimrah prayer service. The second rule provides that similar words in different contexts invite the reader to find a connection between the two topics. The words “in its proper time” (בְּמוֹעֲדוֹ, bemoado) in Numbers 28:2 indicate that the priests needed to bring the daily offering “in its proper time,” even on a Sabbath. Applying the second rule, the same words in Numbers 9:2 mean that the priests needed to bring the Passover offering “in its proper time,” even on a Sabbath.
Jews read the description of the additional (Mussaf) Sabbath offering in Numbers 28:9–10 among the descriptions of offerings after the Sabbath morning blessings and again as part of the Mussaf Amidah prayer for the Sabbath.
On Rosh Chodesh (the first of the month), Jews read the description of the Rosh Chodesh offering in Numbers 28:11–15 among the descriptions of offerings after the morning blessings and again on Shabbat Rosh Chodesh as part of the Mussaf Amidah prayer for the Sabbath.
The Passover Haggadah, in the concluding nirtzah section of the Seder, perhaps in a reference to the listing of Festivals in Numbers 29, calls Passover “the first of all Festivals.”
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