“ ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
To offer the additional offering on Rosh Hashanah
The cited verse
The Hebrew (Masoretic Text)
וַעֲשִׂיתֶם עֹלָה לְרֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ לַיהוָה פַּר בֶּן־בָּקָר אֶחָד אַיִל אֶחָד כְּבָשִׂים בְּנֵי־שָׁנָה שִׁבְעָה תְּמִימִם
In Maimonides’ words
How Maimonides defines this commandment in his Sefer HaMitzvot — his own words, shown as a primary source.
היא שצוה שנקריב קרבן מוסף ביום ראשון מתשרי והוא מוסף ראש השנה. והוא אמרו יתברך ובחדש השביעי באחד לחדש ועשיתם עולה לריח ניחוח לה'. (פינחס, תמידין ומוספין פ"ט):
That is that He commanded to offer an additional sacrifice on the first day of Tishrei. And that is the additional sacrifice of Rosh Hashanah. And that is His, may He be exalted, saying, "In the seventh month, on the first day [...] You shall offer a burnt-offering as a pleasing odor to the Lord" (Numbers 29:1-2). (See Parashat Pinchas; Mishneh Torah, Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings 9.)
Hebrew: Sefer HaMitzvot, Warsaw 1883 (public domain). English: Sefaria Edition, trans. Rabbi Francis Nataf, 2021 (CC0). Via Sefaria; translator’s footnotes omitted.
Literary form: a ritual instruction
Applicability
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- Requires a standing Temple
Classical halakhic consequences
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Imposed by a court
No court-imposed penalty is recorded.
At the hands of Heaven
No divinely-imposed consequence is recorded.
Ritual remedy
No ritual remedy is recorded.
How the streams of Judaism treat this commandment
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- Orthodox Binding
- Conservative As the catalog records it: non binding (commemorated liturgically)
- Reform Not binding
- Reconstructionist Not binding
- Karaite Binding
24 of 613 commandments have been examined in depth so far — this one is queued.
How later traditions received this commandment
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Qumran (the Dead Sea Scrolls)
- 11Q19 (Temple Scroll) cols. 25-26 read it more strictly
Rabbinic aggadah
- Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana 23 (Bachodesh ha-Shevii) expanded it homiletically
- Leviticus Rabbah 29:1 expanded it homiletically
Philo of Alexandria
- De Specialibus Legibus 2.188-192 The catalog describes this reception as: allegorized (cosmic and martial sense)
Josephus
- Ant. 3.239-242 affirmed it
Where this commandment meets modern human-rights frameworks
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No tension with the catalogued modern frameworks is recorded here.