How many Matzah-loaves and how many wafers does the Nazir have to bring?
Why must the loaves be placed in a basket - like the Matzah loaves that Aharon and his sons during the Shiv'as Y'mei ha'Milu'im (See Tetzaveh, Sh'mos, 29:3)?
Oznayim la'Torah: Because, like Aharon and his sons, who were being initiated into a higher level of existence, 1 the Nazir is preparing to live a more exalted life-style 2 - when evenually his period of Nezirus terminates. 3
His Korban too - comprising Chatas, Olah and Shelamim - resembled that of the Milu'im.
See Oznayim la'Torah DH 'Yavi Oso' #2. Refer also to 6:15:1.2:1.
What is the significance of the basket, into which the loaves of the Milu'im and those of the Nazir are placed?
Oznayim la'Torah: Because the Kohen had to take a complete loaf from both the Matzos and the wafers, 1 to wave and give to the Kohen. Consequently, they were placed in a basket to ensure that they did not break,
If the three kinds of loaves required by the Milu'im (Matzos-loaves, Chalah-loaves and wafers) corresponded to the three kinds of Korban - Chatas, Olah and Shelamim) that they brought, why does the Nazir require only two (Matzos and wafers) - bearing in mind that he also brought the same three Korbanos?
Oznayim la'Torah: Because, as the Gemara states in Zevachim, 9b, the Chatas of the Nazir, who did not sin, is really an Olah - in which he only brings two kinds of Korban.
Why does the Torah find it necessary to insert "u'Minchasam ve'Niskeihem" - regarding the Olah and the Shelamim? Why is it not obvious that they require Nesachim?
Rashi: Since they were included in the K'lal of Olos and Shelamim, but left it to adopt the new Din of Lechem, 1 the Torah needs to return them to the K'lal to require Nesachim. 2
Menachos, 91b: Since, in Pasuk 17, the Torah sees fit to include the Minchah and the Nesech of the ram of Shelamim, we incorporate the Olah, which like the ram of the Shelamim, can come as a Neder or Nedavah, but preclude the Chatas and the Asham, which cannot. 3
