Tzav 5786

In parshas tzav, which is really a parsha that is really meant for the Kohanim and how they have to go about doing the avodah. And nevertheless, in the parshas tzav, we find a new korban which was not mentioned in parshas Vayikra, which means in parshas Vayikra you have olah, you have chatas, you have asham, etc. etc. But there's one korban that is not mentioned in parshas Vayikra, and in fact it's then put in parshas tzav. And what is that? The parsha of korban tamid. What is a korban tamid? So Rashi comments over here. That if a person had a miracle happen to him, and now he wants to express his hakaras hatov and gratefulness to the Ribono shel Olam, he brings a korban called a korban todah, which is a thanksgiving korban. Okay, and what are examples of a neis? K'gon yordei hayam, a person went on a sea voyage, v'holchei midbaros, he went through a he traversed a desert, chavush beis asurim, a person who was in jail, v'choleh she'nisrapeh, a person who was sick and now is better, she'heim tzrichin l'hodos. So those are the four type of people that bring a korban todah. L'hodos she'kasah ba'hem, etc. etc. So, as I say so Rashi, this is what the this is what this pasuk is referring to. Now, this really just exacerbates the question. This is a legitimate korban, it's a korban that people bring on these occasions. Why is it not in parshas Vayikra where it should belong? Number two, Rashi says that this is on a neis that happens to a person. What's an example of neis? Rashi says a person had a sea voyage and he he came out alive and well, or he traversed the desert which was a sakanah and and nothing happened. And a person was imprisoned in jail, or who knows what could happen to him. V'choleh she'nisrapeh, and this is where we a lot of times bring a a seudas todah because we were you know that we were we were ill, etc. etc. We got better. Rashi calls this al dvar hayad al hanneis she'na'asah li. Now, these things are a person is in an element of danger, but we would not call it a neis, a miracle. The answer is that yes, they're not the miracles like Krias Yam Suf or Makos Bechoros or the eser makos. But as the Ramban says al haTorah, we have nisim happen to us every single day. They're called neis nistar, a hidden neis. Things happen to people all the time, and if they're saved because the Ribono shel Olam intervenes and doesn't let anything bad happen to them. That is called a neis nistar, and the Ramban says at the end of parshas Bo, a person who does not believe in neis nistar, ein lo chelek b'Toras Moshe Rabbeinu. It's part of the fundamental faith of a Jew to understand that everything that happens to him in in life is directed by the Ribono shel Olam, and many times things don't happen or things happen that are not change of the maaseh bereishis, but nevertheless are called a neis nistar. And that's what these four things are, neis nistar. You know, anything can happen on a sea sea voyage, especially in talmudic times and earlier times. But you got out safe and safe and sound, that's called a neis nistar. But the question again is, but why is this in parshas tzav? This is a parsha that has directed almost 90% if not more to the Kohanim. This is a this is a korban that affects all Jews. Why is it in parshas Vayikra? And I think the the answer is, and my answer, Rebbi Simcha Bunim Eisemann Sonnenfeld, zecher tzaddik livracha, provided the answer. And that is no, the Kohanim have to hear this because the Kohanim work in the Beis Hamikdash in which Chazal tell us that every single day 10 nisim happen, but real nisim, nisim geluyim. Uh the smoke always went up the one way, the the fire was never put out by rain, etc. etc. etc. So the whole day the Kohanim are surrounded by nisim. So if you're surrounded by such nisim, so when it comes to a neis like this, a neis nistar, getting an operation and and getting back better, ah, that's a neis, that's not a neis. And there was never a fly in the mizbei'ach, even all the meat was there, that's a neis. The answer is no, that the Kohanim have to be aware of this. And they have to know that in spite of the fact they are surrounded by more open nisim, nisim geluyim, the rain never put out the mizbei'ach, you can have a downpour, but they never never put out the ice on the mizbei'ach. Therefore it's the Kohanim that have to go ahead and be aware that there's something called a neis nistar, that the Ribono shel Olam is constantly performing nisim to us. And since this is right before Pesach, that's why everybody should see that Ramban at the end of parshas Bo. Because that really was is what Yitzias Mitzrayim was about. The Ribono shel Olam proved once and all for the world he controls the world. He doesn't do this on a daily basis, but he does do this on a daily basis, the nisim nistarim. And from those the fact that the Ribono shel Olam we saw that he literally controls the world, we have to know that if we're we were had an operation and it all went well and nothing bad happened, that's also a neis nistar. It's not going to make the headlines, but it's a neis nistar. And that is why the Ribono shel Olam said we have to make such a big deal out of Pesach and the nisim geluyim, is because from the nisim geluyim we can extrapolate that the Ribono shel Olam runs the world on a daily on a minute by minute basis, and that if we don't have that siyata d'Shmaya and help from the Ribono shel Olam, we would not be able to exist. And that is the point of Yitzias Mitzrayim and the Haggadah shel Pesach. Please, I urge you to see that Ramban, the very last Ramban in parshas Bo.