on Shmini Atzeret Not to do prohibited labor on Shmini Atzeret To take up a lulav and etrog all seven days To dwell in a sukkah for the seven days of Sukkot In the liturgy Some Jews refer to the 24 priestly gifts deduced from and as they study chapter 6 of Pirkei Avot on a Sabbath between Passover and Rosh Hashanah. The laws of a priest's family eating meat from sacrifices in provide an application of the eleventh 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 eleventh rule provides that any item that was included in a generalization but was then singled out to be treated as a special case is not governed by the generalization unless Scripture explicitly returns it to the generalization. states the general rule that a priest's entire household could eat meat from sacrifices. But then says that if a priest's daughter married a non-priest, then she could no longer eat meat from sacrifices. What if she was then widowed or divorced without children and returned to live with her father's household? Reading , one might think that she still could not eat meat from sacrifices, but explicitly returns her to the general rule that she could eat meat from sacrifices. The Passover Haggadah, in the concluding nirtzah section of the Seder, ties together a reference to Abraham's hospitality to his visitors in with the reading for the second day of Passover that includes in a discussion of a bullock offering. The Haggadah reports that Abraham ran to the cattle to commemorate the ox in the reading for Passover, deducing the season from the report in that Lot fed his visitors matzah. Haftarah The haftarah for the parashah is . Notes Further reading The parashah has parallels or is discussed in these sources: Ancient The Code of Hammurabi, sections 194–214. Babylonia, Circa 1780 BCE. In, e.g., James B. Pritchard. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, page 175. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Plato. Laws 6:759. Greece, 4th century BCE. In, e.g., The Laws of Plato. Translated by Thomas L. Pangle, page 145. New York: Basic Books, 1980. (priests sound of body). Biblical (God makes people disabled); , 43–49 (Passover); (Passover); (eye for eye); (three pilgrim festivals); (three pilgrim festivals). (Yom