## Da'at Zekenim on Numbers Chapter 5

###### Da'at Zekenim on Numbers 5:15:1
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**מזכרת עון.**שאר מנחות באות לכפר עון מנחת חוטא ומנחת נדבה ונותנין בהן שמן ולבונה כדי שיהא הקרבן מתמר ועולה לריח ניחוח אבל זו שאינה באה להזכיר זכות אלא לגלגל עון לפיכך לא יהא קרבנה מהודר:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
מזכרת עון, “as a reminder of an iniquity committed.” Other types of meal offerings are described as לכפר עון, “to atone for an iniquity committed.” We know of a מנחת חוטא “meal offering of a sinner;” מנחת נדבה “a voluntary meal offering;” these meal offerings are accompanied by oil and לבונה, frankincense, in order for that offering resulting in a pleasant fragrance, ריח ניחוח, in order to remind the Lord of the merits of the donor. Seeing that the mandatory offering discussed here is not intended to remind G–d of the donor’s merits but her husband brings his wife to the priest as an accuser, the offering only serves as a reminder of his sin. [It is not clear yet at this point if the wife was guilty of serious misconduct. Ed.] (Compare Talmud, tractate Sotah, folio 15)