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King Agrippa sought to offer up a thousand olah-offerings in a single day.
He sent a message to the High Priest saying, "Let no one bring any offerings today except for me." A poor man came with two turtledoves in his hand, and said to the priest, "Offer these up."
He replied to him, "The king has commanded me, saying to me, Let no one bring any offerings today except for me.'"
[The poor man] said to him, "My master, High Priest! I capture four every day. I offer up two and I sustain myself with two. If you do not offer them up, you will cut off my sustenance!"
He took them and offered them up.
It appeared to Agrippa in a dream: The offering of a poor person has taken precedence over yours!
He sent a message to the High Priest, saying, "Did I not instruct you that no one should bring any offerings today except for me?"
[The High Priest] told him, "My master, the king! A poor man came with two turtledoves in his hand, and said to me,
'Offer these up. I said to him, 'The king has commanded me, saying to me: Let no one bring any offerings today except for me.' The poor person said to me, 'I capture four every day. I offer up two and I sustain myself with two. If you do not offer them up, you will cut off my sustenance. Was I not to offer them up?"
He said to him, "Everything you did, you did properly.
We explore the midrashim regarding sacrifices or poor people vs royalty and the way chazal
Used such stories to teach morality and purity of intention not wealth.