“And if you bring near a flour offering baked in the oven…And if your flour offering is a flour offering baked in a pan… And if your flour offering is a flour offering baked in a pot…”(Vayikra 2:4,5,7)
These three ways of baking flour represent different comforts of life.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch commented: “The Mincha, flour offering, expresses our acknowledgment to G-d in respect to food, comfort, and satisfaction, altogether referring to our happiness in life.
“Minchas solas,” the fine flour offering expresses various degrees of needs.
If we compare the offerings baked in the oven, baked in a pan, and baked in a pot, they seem to have the relation to bread, cake, and special prepared dishes.
Bread is ordinary food, a staple of everyone’s diet in our daily life. Cake, signifies the extra enjoyment, the unusual condition of luxury. A dish prepared for special occasion, reflects a passing moment of special joy.
So we have things that we expect to be there, things that are more special, and things that are extra special, that we could do without.
In the same way we have our routine and daily life, which we rarely acknowledge as special, a special day, and an extraordinary day.
These three offerings of gratitude were given because even though the ordinary wouldn’t seem to be something to be grateful about, H”S reminds us that even the ordinary is something to be acknowledged and praised.
We should never take anything for granted for even our most basic needs are gifts of H”S.
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