Beth Shammai dice: La (ofrenda) de "ver" (re'iah) es dos (monedas) de plata. [Un adulto que viene a "ver" debe traer una ofrenda quemada, a saber. (Éxodo 23:15): "No se verá mi rostro con las manos vacías". La ofrenda puede costar no menos de dos ma'ah de plata, que es el peso de treinta y dos granos de cebada de plata refinada], y la ofrenda del festival (chagigah) [ofrendas de paz del festival, a saber. (Éxodo 12:14): "Y lo celebrarán como una fiesta para el Señor"; es decir, traer ofrendas de paz festivas. Pueden costar no menos de] una señora de plata. Y aunque no hay una cantidad fija para la ofrenda de "ver" y la ofrenda del festival, está escrito (Deuteronomio 16:17): "Cada hombre, según el don de su mano", los sabios establecen un límite inferior por debajo que no puede irse.] Beth Hillel dice: La ofrenda de "ver", una señora de plata; la ofrenda del festival, dos. [Para (partes de) las ofrendas de paz van a lo Alto, a los sacerdotes y a los propietarios, respectivamente, por lo que son más caras que las ofrendas quemadas, que están enteramente (quemadas) en lo Alto. Y aparte de la ofrenda quemada de "ver" y las ofrendas de paz del festival mencionadas en nuestra Mishná, también tuvieron que traer un tipo diferente de ofrenda de paz llamada "ofrendas de paz de alegría" (shalmei simchah), a saber. (Ibid. 27: 7): "Y matarás las ofrendas de paz y las comerás allí, y te regocijarás, etc." Estas ofrendas de paz de alegría no se mencionan aquí y los sabios no les asignaron una cantidad fija. Y las mujeres están obligadas en ellos como los hombres, las mujeres están obligadas a regocijarse (en el festival), a saber. (Ibid. 14:26): "Y te alegrarás, tú y tu familia".]
Bartenura on Mishnah Chagigah
הראיה שתי כסף – an adult who comes to be seen [in the Temple during the Three Pilgrimage Festivals] must bring a burnt offering, as it states (Exodus 23:15): “and none shall appear before Me empty-handed” (though the same connotation is found in Deuteronomy 16:16 – “…They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.”), which is not less than two silver MAOT, which are the weight of thirty-two globules/stones from purified silver.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Chagigah
Introduction
In this mishnah the two houses debate the minimum value of the pilgrimage offering and the hagigah offering. These two offerings were explained in the introduction to the tractate.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Chagigah
וחגיגה – festival peace-offerings, as the Torah states (Exodus 12:14): “[This day shall be to you one of remembrance:] you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD [throughout the ages]….,” that is to say, they brought festival peace-offerings, none less than a silver M’AH, and even though there is no fixed measure for “appearing” and for the festival offering, as it is written (Deuteronomy 16:17): “But each with his own gift, [according to the blessing that the LORD your God has bestowed upon you],” the Sages gave them a lower fixed measure, that he should not bring less than this.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Chagigah
Bet Shammai say: the pilgrimage-offering (re’eyah) must be worth [at least] two pieces of silver and the hagigah one piece (ma’ah) of silver. But Bet Hillel say: the pilgrimage-offering must be worth [at least] one ma'ah of silver and the hagigah two pieces of silver. The pilgrimage offering is an olah, a wholly burnt offering, whereas the hagigah is a shelamim, a thanksgiving offering, part eaten by the priests, part by its owners and part offered on the altar. According to Bet Shammai the sacrifice that is completely for God, the pilgrimage offering, is the more expensive offering. If we extrapolate, we might say that when a person has a limited budget, he should spend more on God than on himself. Bet Hillel holds the opposite the hagigah offering, eaten by people, is to be the more expensive offering. Extrapolating again, Bet Hillel seems to put humans at the center, focusing on enriching their religious experience by providing them more food.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Chagigah
הראיה מאה כסף וחגיגה שתי כסף – for peace-offerings have in them for God and the Kohanim and their owners, therefore they are more plentiful than burnt-offerings, which lack in them other than for the All-High (God), and except for the burnt-offering of appearance and the festival peace-offerings that are mentioned in our Mishnah, they also had to bring an additional other kind of peace-offering, and they are called peace-offerings of rejoicing, as it is written (Deuteronomy 27:7): “And you shall sacrifice there offerings of well-being and eat them, rejoicing [before the LORD your God].” But the peace-offerings of rejoicing (called “offerings of well-being” in the Torah) are not mentioned here [in the Mishnah]. And the Sages did not give them a particular [required] measure. But women are obligated in them as are men, for as regards “rejoicing,” women were commanded, as is it written (Deuteronomy 14:26): “…And you shall feast there, [in the presence of the LORD your God,] and rejoice with your household.”
