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Parshat Tzav: Thanksgiving: The Todah and the Quasi Todah By Rabbi Ari Kahn
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Delivered 18 Adar II 5784 / March 28, 2024 www.ouisrael.org facebook.com/ouisrael #OUisrael #torah #judaism #torahlectures #tzav #parsha #parshathashavua
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okay so today we're doing
par which come on let's be honest we we
always try to avoid such parot but we're
we're not avoiding it we're going a deep
dive into corbon note I know the problem
the problem is that this is a foreign
world it's one that we don't even begin
to understand what it is that we're
supposed to understand and it's just so
mysterious and we're going to make some
sense out of this world today and you're
going to walk out of this understanding
hopefully at least something so let me
begin
zat so the the first corbon that we're
going to discuss today is a corbon which
is called Aim so what is schlim so first
of all what it is it not okay it's not a
corbon Ola which completely is burnt
burnt offering going to God it's not a
corbon Kat which is a sin offering it's
not a corbon for
um it's not a it is not one where there
may be
in it is a Corban which as it sounds
like it's a peace offering schlim in
order to create peace between man and
God so right there what it means is that
there is not I'm going to be very
careful now not necessarily anything
wrong which I did which therefore is
going to generate an obligation to bring
this coron quite the opposite there's no
obligation so here here we're dealing
with a Corbin with no obligation what's
well and I want to be careful apparently
no obligation but I'm going to have to
qualify that as we move
on now here they're now I have to back
up to what I just now said or qualify if
you're bringing it because you want to
say thank you it's a Corban which means
why are you bringing this Corban now the
only question is right as of this point
will be obligation soon we'll see that
there may very well be something that
will obligate it but as of this point
why you bring the Corban to because
something good happened what could
happened take your pick what good thing
do you want in your life you got
accepted to the school that you wanted
to get accepted to you won the lottery
right your stock just now went all the
way out again you choose the good thing
that happened to you into your life
right anyone else anything else you had
a great porm something happened in your
life that you want to express thank you
so by the way as of this point we don't
know what that
could be and if the obligation not
obligation but
it's now if you didn't get it there's
lots and lots and lots of flour being
used in various ways I'm actually going
going to make this a little bit easier
for you this is what it looks like more
or less this is the artist rendition of
the various things that we just now red
so you're going to have these and these
and these and these now some of them
actually could look like like most of
the things used in the BET mikdash which
will be things which will not bees but
you do have those mates over there that
very much look like rolls now if you're
wondering why they look like rolls
because it just now said that you that
that's part of what you have to bring
and let's if you want I'll read that P
again or t
b so that's why you had some
there which means that this Corban needs
to be brought together with these the
these these these mat whatever you want
to call them go together with theban to
continue and when the day that you bring
the Corban that is the day that you need
to eat this and you're not supposed to
leave anything over until the morning so
I just again want to pause for a moment
moment when you're looking at corba node
one of the things you should be looking
for is what kind of animal first
question will be big animal small animal
bakar or ton second question should be
looking at are you dealing with a male
or you dealing with a female in terms of
the obligation I'm not even saying what
all this means right now I'm just trying
to make sense out of total chaos and
disorder and and not understanding this
world is that if you want to sound
intelligent when somebody starts
discussing corbon by the way other
things then sprinkling the blood which M
are we talking about in out of M so so
these essentially are going to be the
moving Parts in terms of any kind of a
carbon and then the other thing will be
does the carbon have anything that is
brought with it and in this case the
answer is yes we see that there are
various things made out of flour which
are going to be brought with it so
essentially male female big small and
and and so on so over here what we know
as of this point it is brought with
something else well also the other
question will be is it eaten or not
eaten if it is eaten who eats it just
for example coronat is not eaten by the
person who brought theat rather it's
eaten by the cohain a Corbin Ola on the
other hand nobody eats it as the word
Ola is completely a burnt offering so
again I'm I'm going to say that even
though when you enter into this world of
corbon not it's very very daunting we
say I I just have no idea no
understanding whatsoever what's going on
that's why I want to begin to try to
break things down a little bit then it
says
in so let's pause right there
previously if you're bringing it as a
Thanksgiving offering okay now now we
have a word to put with this you have a
type of a Corban schlim which a Corb
schlim is also they have Shalom right
peace between us and God so you could
have a Corb which is a peace offering
because it's a Thanksgiving offering
right a Thanksgiving peace offering
could be one type but now we're told
there another
type but on the other hand what if
you're bringing it because a you made a
vow or you just said I want to give a
donation I want to give it I feel like I
want to give a donation to The I want to
bring this this
offering here's the difference you like
to eat it on the day that it was
bro and you can eat it again on the next
day so generally a Corb a regular Corban
schlam is eaten for two days and one
night one day night next day that means
two days and one night so but again why
will this be important well may be
important how big the animal is and how
much food and and also how much how much
quote unquote bread is brought with
it and anything left over on the third
day it gets burnt and then it talks
about the sin that may be involved
afterwards of leaving meat furthermore
but essentially we have as of this point
two types of schlim one a toada and one
a
Ona good good and I know that in a
certain sense part of the mystery over
here will be you know why are we bring
corbon Noe and I had thoughts about
talking about that more and I'm actually
going to stay away from that as much as
possible I will point out that early on
in human history and this is not the
earliest we do have a Corbin Ola which
is brought by Noah After the flood but
by the way you could have also said
maybe you should bring a Corbin too
because he survived he brings a Corbin
Ola After the flood and what's more
important to me is the Divine
response God then somehow smells and
appreciates the pleasant smell but yo
and God said
say I'm not going to do this kind of
cursing the Earth because of man because
man basically has this
terrible from the very beginning man has
this
terrible I'm not going to strike all of
creation like I've done previously I'm
not going to use this as the reason so
it's interesting that he brings a Corbin
Ola and there's some kind of response to
it which means quote unquote it works
so I know that what I just now did is
maybe not necessarily connected but
maybe that's part of the hope that any
whenever you bring a Corban even if you
were not necessarily obligated to bring
it maybe it brings some kind of divine
response maybe something happens so
let's go now back to the beginning of
the yra because it's that's when it
starts off telling us about our Corban
not very beginning it starts off
with
again that's one of the things I told
you to pay attention to Bak are going to
be big animals are going to be the small
animals if you're going to bring
Corb a Corbin now you learn also needs
to be from a male that's what a Corbin
needs to be from the male from the Bak
but but as we continue it will tell us
in which means the thing about a COR ol
yeah you could choose a big animal you
could choose a small animal you can make
a burnt offering anything that you want
but a Corola really always is a male and
that's the only thing which stays with
it and as we continue we're actually
told that Source
foric you can also end up bringing uh
things which are not necessarily even an
animal you can bring you can bring
things made out of solet you can bring
things which are made out of uh things
which grow as a Corban and it does not
have to be an animal what whatsoever so
let let's a grain yeah you could bring a
grain offering as well and then the
continuation peric B actually mentions
one more thing
the so this is a which means it's not
from an animal but it's it's okay well
let's make this easier Bim will bring B
most likely
on then it says aiv which is really
interesting word it's grain which grows
in the spring don't get Fred by
it so you're going to take the new grain
and you're going to burn the Grain and
the grain is going to be put as an
offering so again just in case you think
that this whole world of corbon note is
uniquely a world that only deals with
killing animals and that's all that's
going on all days that killing animals
no there there are other types of
offerings and Gest religious gestures
which are taking place and I hope that's
good again last week it told us also
about the
Corban and it adds a little bit more
that we did not know when we picked it
up this week and then Source
5 and then afterwards it will go on to
say what what it means is is that when
you bring aim which is essentially to a
great part voluntary then if you're
bringing from the bakar which means
large animals like a cow you could do Z
which means when it comes to the
voluntary offering it's less rigid in
terms of what you need to do if it's a
Corbin again it has to be in a certain
way Corbin Allah has to be a certain way
but here you're volunteering and you're
volunteering to do what it is that you
want to do and therefore there is a
possibility of having a larger animal
we'll talk about the implications of
that in a moment in Source number six
which is back in parav but I but I will
go back and say that Corb does not have
to be it's you you could choose to use
smaller animals as well but what it does
say at the very end over here is that
this will then
create that this again this Divine
response in Source number
six so is dealing with again grain
offerings and that also creates if you
look at the end
of
but and here's the thing which is
interesting by
the
by other thing is where needs to be
eaten which just now created another
principle and that is that the
various and so on are not supposed to
be so it's at this point that again I
don't want to go any further here cuz I
know that we're already getting close to
complete confusion because we already
have contradictions now there are some
corbon note that have rules in terms of
it has to be male or it has to be female
there are some that have to be eaten
here eaten by the Coen eaten by the
person so when it comes to the Corban
schlim there really is the most leeway
two types of schlim one is the toada one
is her that could be either male or
female animal that could be big animals
it could be small animals but it was
something else that that we learned just
now but it needs lots and lots and lots
of bread together with the toada and
that we were told specifically with
the which is a to lots and lots of bread
and there's going to be a problem over
here because the other thing which again
you should have been paying attention to
is the amount of time that you have to
eat it when it comes to the other type
of schlim it could be eaten for the day
the night night and the next day so you
have two days and a night and but when
it comes to the Corban to then we're
limited it has to be eaten only on that
day good good and now we know everything
that we need to know
Ray in Source number seven breaks it
down gives us information and is going
to give us a way to proceed and
understand
this which this is back where we
began the two types of to
one is because something happened that
you want to say thank you and the other
one is purely out of this motivation
that I want to reach out to God carbon
right there's always this gesture
between man and God whereby where
sometimes something comes from above and
then we respond sometimes that we reach
out from below so it sounds as if the
Corban toada is that I discern that
something came down from heaven and I
want to thank God for this on the other
hand the Corban is meant it's
essentially Corban would be that man
discerns that God has done something in
my life of significance and now I want
to respond in a religiously appropriate
way on the other hand the Corbin schlim
is that I am reaching out to God and
what do I of course I want some kind of
divine blessing abundance and so on in
my life but it's really my reaching up
without anything having happened perhaps
yet so it's almost like there are two
types of schlim is one is anticipation
of something good H sorry we'll do the
other way around one is because
something good really happened and I
want to say thank you and the other is
an anticipation and hope that something
good is going to happen did that make
that a little bit easier the to is one
type of the schlim that was that first
type that can okay and that's the other
distinction when I want something good
to happen and I'm reaching out there's
no obligation then I can eat the corun
day night and day two days in a night
but when it's thanks for something which
has happened then I can only eat it that
day so now of course you should all be
asking me by this point so why is there
a difference they're both a corbon
schlam which means all of these rules
about the corbon note are ult enough as
it is so why in the world are we making
know why do we why is god making all of
these rules and that's really where is
addressing because what he's going to
try to do now is distinguish between
those two types of Corban schlam the
type where something good has happened
versus the one where I want something
good to
happen
so again I can show you the pictures of
all that that was a lot and that was
really a great deal of bread now just
think for a second you also have a
corbon and you only have this one day to
eat it and you have a lot of bread which
means theoretically you could be making
40 sandwiches right of uh of know
depends on how big that animal was which
is if you if you actually brought a baka
you brought a cow how are you finishing
that cow and all that bread in one day
so one guy brings a corbon so now you
realize maybe it would make some sense
to bring something which is somewhat
smaller because it can only be in that
day anything left over then we have all
those rules that becomes whatever so
perfect perfect so therefore which now
you realize that that that's exactly
where the is going with this and he say
look at the enormous amount of bread
that you have over
here and so on and so forth and he
says you end up having 30 types of matah
and another 10 you know whole pile of
which by the way the is really
interesting what in the world the the
and the and the matah are doing over
here and we're going to skip a little
bit don't we have a principle you don't
bring as part of a Corban you don't
bring
goes no it's different and this is like
really we're getting technical now the
problem with having a Corban which is is
actually putting it on the M but not
over here having it as part of the rules
together with the Corban so yes we are
getting
hyper um technical in all of this is
there anything else that we want to know
about all this may maybe maybe just the
sorno first maybe this will help
usno also on
that
right all of again is opposed
to right we all know this already by the
way don't you feel good about this you
already know what he's going to say next
there's a distinction between the
different types of schlim the ones which
are those are going to come with a lot
of bread including the one on the other
hand which is going to come because I
want something good to happen future
oriented that on the other hand is not
going to come with uh with so let's read
thisno again
now if you doing because you wanted to
be
thankful then you have to put
there the danger is always the guys have
any idea what this this is so famous
this term actually the idea not the term
the idea is famous the term you have no
idea what he's talking about he goes the
problem is the is now the truth is what
we're going to come back to this for in
a second the truth is it's total
metaphor which he's using and the
metaphor is found in the gar in the G
says in which is down over here in 14
this is the
prayer some would
say this is what would
say and this is what would say after he
finished daving you know at the end of
daving let's say you you have
the I mean the so this is what he would
say at the end of
daving master of all
worlds it's revealed and known to
you our desire is to do your desire what
holds us back from serving you properly
so what is
it now what exactly
is yesterday in in our class on GAR
Jacob that what exactly is s s is we
normally we translate as yeast by the
way all almost all yeast which is used
today is not real yeast real yeast as
tower level yeast would be something
which we would generally call today sour
dough and then you can explore what
could be the connection between s versus
S which means what you can't have on PES
is and is aing Agent it's something
which turns something into so if you
have you know flour water and then you
throw in s sour dough you turn this into
so over here it's saying what is it now
we want to serve you God what holds us
back that somebody threw some sour dough
into the ISA now as I told you that's a
metaphor into the into the
dough and the fact that we're controlled
by other
kings be God's will your will save us
from
them and let us serve you with a
complete heart now what in the what in
the world is this prayer that he would
say every day
not now why do we keep messing up and
not doing your
will therefore is a metaphor
for that's really
interesting it turns things into it's
essentially what did the Garra just now
do it turned into a metaphor and a
symbol of
the which which of course creates huge
questions by the way this is a really
interesting thing in terms of Jewish
theology the various opinions who are
going to make a move and change the
concept of looking fromes looking for
searching forit possessing kites eating
kites from being something which is
purely God said
and I don't need to question why into a
spiritual struggle for me to rid the
world of evil and rid my house or my
heart or my home of all kinds of which
means becomes a symbol for now that's
really interesting by the way the term
used over here is the thing which spoils
things and it causes you to miss
opportunities and so on so essentially
what is this prayer the prayer is God I
really want to serve you why do I keep
messing up and I mess up because thear
why do I have Yar cuz God gave me what
is the symbol of the story should be Isa
but by the way all of this takes us to
really another place but like one stop
before we get to that place and
therefore it makes a great deal of sense
that that we don't use any Kates on the
M why the the that's not the place we're
trying to rekindle our relationship with
God we're trying to fix the relationship
with God it's no place for thear of
course the obvious obvious problem with
all of this is that if in fact
the is represented ofar thenit should
never be allowed to be eaten right it
should be the same thing as far as we're
concern concerned as pork chops right
it's not Kosher even worse maybe why
worse because this is the represent for
thear so how in the world can we ever
have it now on top of all that we now
have a problem as well why when bringing
the Corban to the schl which is a toada
why in that particular offering do we
have this combination where we have a
lot of things which are matah and why is
there which is represented in this which
means this now by the way you see what
we just now did yeah like like somehow
we're going to get out of all of these
Technical and boring and and things
about the corbon note and then realize
no no there's something else which is
going on over here and the Corban TOA is
one which is going to create a challenge
but it's again it's going to be this
combination which is a disturbing
combination so I want to make a
suggestion you ready once I make this
suggestion
now then
something may actually click and
something may actually make
sense every I've been saying about the
Corban TOA should not have been terribly
foreign to us look at this first look at
this Forno in Source number nine that's
where we starting that's where we went
looking for our Sahara
which means we're thanking God that we
were saved from something why were we
saved because there was something bad
there what represents the bad thear is
what causes their an ability for
something to be bad again that that's
where we had paused in this
Forno nonetheless whenever an individual
brings a Corban which is a to or we'll
just call it a Corban to whenever he
does that or he or she does that they
will always be too much food for one
person to eat one person cannot in one
day eat the Corban the entire thing
right
what
he essentially just now told us
something which is I think really
interesting he said by definition all of
us should understand that there's no way
for an individual I'm repeating myself
to eat
theban with all of the bread involved in
it right all of this bread there's no
way for one person to eat all of this in
one day and it limited to one day so it
says why does it limited to one day it
says because the person has something to
be thankful for something good happened
and therefore the concept of a Corban T
is to bring in as many people as
possible that you can tell them the
narrative and tell them what happened
and tell them how God came into your
life and tell them how God saved you and
express your appreciation which means
the Corbin TOA has built into it lots of
people now by the way you want to use a
current metaphor of this it means make a
Kish and bring lots and lots of people
over there and lots and lots of food and
you're
not of course is going to come somehow
from this but I'm saying what the spno
just now did is he looked at all the
pieces of information and again to a
very great extent this corbine is an
outlier in the sense the amount of time
who's eating it the amount of time the
amount of bread and he's saying look at
the obvious too much food too much bread
too much to eat a person and too little
time you just take that combination and
he says well there's one more element
that this is a corbon designed to say
Thank you so if you want to say thank
you that means that something happened
that you want to say thank you about and
if you want to say thank you so
therefore you're saying that it's a
thing to bring as many people as
possible to hear that story to hear how
God saved you so that they can all say
wow that's incredible you knowem and so
on and so forth that is what the Corban
to is now are we good till this point
did everything make sense till this
point cuz I just now we're going to take
the jump okay every everything here is
simple yeah everything really really
till this point was simple we just made
a little order of it if you want I'll
say it one more time we have over here
all kinds of carbon out all kinds of
rules all kinds of things what's brought
who eats it and so on here we have a
rule lots of bread animal little time
put that all together how do I stop the
food from becoming what ever it's called
after its time that I can no longer eat
it it all has to be burnt and so on and
so forth what prevents that so I invite
lots of people to my party I said come
up send the invitations come up to Har
it I'm bringing a Corban toada I want
and now part of it becomes why bring a
Corb which means there's a story
involved in as well and I would love to
believe here we taking the First Leap I
would love to believe that people had
lots of opportunities to do this again
I'd like to believe it I'd like to
believe that lots of people religiously
sensitive relig ly inclined with the
beta mikdash as this religious Center
not geographical but religious Center of
their lives if something good happened
how do you express it you go and you say
ah we're going up we're going to harab
it we're making a trip we're being a
Corban toada we're going to tell over
the story and that's the kind of thing
that you want you you're can to invite
everybody and you're going to show your
kids this is how we say thank you and
God really helped me this is really
unexpected something really happened my
life was saved and so on and so forth
and and and again I'll say it again this
is how it's done and I just added one
thing along the way I'd love to believe
that this was really a popular corbon
you know why it's why it should be a
popular corbon because it's really the
happiest corbon that there is it's one
where nobody's telling you you have to
do anything and you have to bring lots
of people and it's a party a Corbin toad
right Are We There Yet now a Corbin toad
is a party it's a party you could say
yeah but still it's in B mikdash it's
not in Tel Aviv and so on and so forth
and we can continue with the various
complaints about it but no this is a
religious party and I'll say it one more
time I'd love to believe that people do
it a lot now here's the second thing
that you need now to realize the Corban
toada Bears incredible resemblance to
another corbon that you should know
quite well and that's the Corbin PES of
course there's something missing but
everything else is there first thing
that as we're looking in schote we're
told that that everyone should bring a
set by the way now it goes down to the
smaller animal the smaller type and and
and that by the way is true corbon PES
has to be animal which
is which is in its first year which by
the way generally means that it's going
to be very very small and very very
young you don't know this because you're
old city Folk yes that Lambs are born
only certain times of the year did you
know this you don't know about the
menstrual cycles of
grown
no it's far more interesting than you
would think but if it had to be in its
first year then it's almost guaranteed
that it's not going to be more than a
month or so old do your research check
up look about how how they grow their uh
their lambs and so on anyway it means
it's very small by the way this thing
about not breaking its bones means that
you have to eat it also you have to eat
it very fast but you also have to be
careful do don't just like grab a bone
and break it and eat it it has to be
done with a little bit of more have to
take your time but that itself now
becomes really interesting C bet C and
it's it's really each family then going
to gather together and I really I mean
the reason I know this is because I
really try to figure out mathematically
how many portions there are in a young
lamb that people can eat how big the
group is going to be and again my
suspicion is it's not all that big
especially when you realize how how
small the lamb probably
is and then you you take it and you put
it away you take on the 10th of the
month and you put it away till the 14th
of the
month and then the offering takes place
in the evening of the of the
14th over here they don't have a they
put on the doorpost and that's part of a
whole another
story you take it and you eat it
together with matah matah and M now when
I say that oh there's something over
here about Corban pesak which reminds
me of the Corban TOA it's that I eat it
together with M by the way there's
something missing and I know what's
missing and I think that you all know
what's missing but there's something
else which is missing but I'll go even
further this is 2/3 or 3/4 of the corant
because there's something else which
happens and what's that we tell the
story We Tell The Narrative which means
the what was the Coran told the Toba is
a Thanksgiving offering it's a
Thanksgiving for something wonderful
which has happened again we can discuss
the first year of PES that's really
interesting the first PES but every
subsequent pesak what are we doing we're
thanking God for something really good
which has happened to us and therefore
we're taking the we're taking this
animal and then we're eating together
with matah should we all admit now
what's missing what's missing is the
thing which bothered us in the first
place and what's that kit is what's
missing because a Corb TOA has mat andit
so we're in the world the which means if
you actually understand what I'm saying
now it means that you're with me and you
got it the thing which really should be
bothering us if I'm going to make a
comparison between a Corbin PES and a
Corbin to the thing which is missing is
the thing which never bothered us
because it shouldn't be there in the
first place and that's thees which means
where's theit and your response could be
of course there can't beit there's
there's P but that's the thing which
prevented it from being a Corban to yes
we're good
yes you can't leave it to the morning
which means it can only be eat in in
that one small time period by the way
you can even argue maybe even it's a
smaller time period than a regular
corent TOA and eat it quickly and so on
and so forth and then we're told to get
rid of the right get get rid of thees
and you can't and this is moving forward
P there wasn't get but subsequently
there is and I just want to add another
thing every single time it says in the
Torah to eat mat on P It also says in
either the same verse or the next verse
and don't EIT and get rid ofit which
means it's almost as that and matah are
two opposite things which are always
said together and over here as well here
eat Mata but you can't eat which again
therefore makes the Corban to a little
bit more interesting um Source number 10
these are the people who should bring
these are the people
who these are the people in today this
is the person who would
say right this is people who are
they
translate people who've crossed to seea
people whove wandered in the desert
people who were sick and were healed and
people who were stuck in prison now how
many of those would you be make an easy
argument oh when they left Egypt they're
included in this right again again three
out of the four really easy the only one
which you can argue is maybe being sick
even though you have a great PK that
says that when after they I'm God who
healed you which is also part of leaving
Egypt essentially leaving Egypt has all
of the elements which should generate a
Corbin TOA which now takes me back to my
same point maybe I really should be
looking at the Corbin PES as a Corbin
TOA but of course there's something
which is a problem and there's something
which is missing and what is missing and
what's missing
is in this mishna in Source 11
in has the what we call the
now you may not know this but the Manana
I mean anybody if they want you can look
this up very easily um the man as
written in the mishna has another
question right after
is there's a question about the Corbin p
in all of our as far as I know in all of
our that question was removed it was
replaced by the way with with the
question about leaning back or or not
leaning back which means the real
expression of Freedom was eating the
Corbin PES on the other hand we no
longer have a Corbin PES so a kid is not
going to ask about the Corbin PES that
we no longer have but that is in the
mission in the next line the reason why
I'm stressing it and as I was reworking
all of this in my head as I was driving
this morning I had hoped that IID left
that there because it seems to me very
clearly that this mishna this this
should be obvious by the way this mishna
is a remnant of Temple
times when the kid is used to eating
well eating a corant in the beta mikdash
he says why is this one only prepared
this way as opposed to other Corban note
which leads me to another line in the
Manana which I think maybe we don't
understand
properly there other nights we it's not
true we don't eat mat every night when
do you eat mat by a to which means if
this kid is more meaning if this really
is a temple oriented question and the
kid therefore is going to ask about
corbino because he's asking hold it why
we only roasting this as opposed to
other corbon not which means this clever
kid who's asking his questions is asking
about the B about the Corbin PESA as
opposed to other Corbin out done in the
BET mikdash and the other usual Corban
that he would have been a part of and he
would have seen would have been the
Corban toada so in a sense what he's
asking and by the way I'm really serious
about this I know that this may sound
like I'm for I'm really serious about
this that so much so that the Corban P
if you lived in a world where the BET
mdash existed you would know that the
Corban PES fits into the Corban TOA
world it's a Corban TOA that's what it
looks like that's what it feels like
what other Corban does the whole family
sit around together what are the corbond
do everybody sit around and then the
then the story is told and the story is
told how God saved us and how God got
involved in our lives and and look at
the miraculous things that happened and
what would happen when we would have the
Corbin toada we would eat it together
with so over here the kid is looking and
saying hold it a second on all other
nights we
eat why is there no over here which
means everything I just now said I
really believe is true but it's so far
from us cuz all of us have had plenty of
St in our lives never occurred to us
that that's what it may mean because we
live in a world that our PES experience
is inauthentic in the sense that it's
not what it was supposed to be with the
corbon PES is in the center now when the
Corbin PES is the center then he asks
why are we eating this Corbin only
roasted as opposed to the way that other
Corbin o could be prepared and why are
we eating this what feels like a corbon
toada without the bread what happened to
the bread and then the question becomes
a much better question than I think that
we ever appreciated of course we then
pick it up we repackage it and we turn
it into a question that exists in a
nonam mikdash world in a world we no
longer have the Corban but all that I'm
trying to do with this is to push
further my state of agenda and that is
to show to what extent that the Corban
PES really is at least reminiscent or
2/3 or 3/4 whatever percentage you liked
of a Corban toada and of course we need
now to come back to the most obvious
thing which is missing and that is the
bread so let's now try to understand
that we get to continuation VRA and
that's really interesting that this is
still in vayikra because VRA we would
have thought deals with corbon OE and so
on there's a shift that takes place over
here and this is par and now we're
dealing with holidays right
AES we're dealing with holidays and all
of these holidays that are going to be
mentioned are going to be holidays that
have some kind of an agricultural side
to
them and that's also interesting why is
it called this should bother everybody
if R is in why is Nissan called thees in
what sense is ites it's the beginning of
the Agricultural year it's the
springtime keep in mind spring spring is
important in thees on the 14th of the
month p and I'm going to say this
stronger than you think I'm going to say
it it's not
that it happens to be that PES comes out
in the spring and therefore we have
these various laws is that God
specifically took us out in the spring
because it's the spring because spring
is the beginning spring what you have is
it's things that looked like it was dead
all winter and suddenly comes back to
life the Jewish people may have seemed
as if they were dead while they're in
Egypt there're no people what are you
talking about a people there's no Jewish
people they're just slaves that we leave
and we come back to life just like
everything growing comes back to life
that
the a Torah law which is you can't serve
you can't use the new crop until after
the OM was brought or theoretically
could have been brought which means it
can't be done until the 16th day of uh
of Nissan and this this is a total
spring concept and by the way now you
realize that also the corbon itself is a
spring concept the corbon is a spring
concept and the OM is a spring concept
which of course now you realize
something else the matah is also a
spring but the matah has to be from the
end end of the previous crop because
we're about to get new a new crop which
is about to grow let's
continue you're going to
count and so on and you're going to
bring this offering and so on and so
forth and
then when it comes to then you bring so
why was I working so hard in order to
try to show that if you realize that the
counting creates something by the way
the person who really explains this a
lot is the ramban but he doesn't say it
exactly the way that I just now said it
what the ramban says is
that is kind of like the of sukot and
the seven weeks are like the seven days
and then you have the eighth day is and
here the Eighth Day the eighth is the
holiday
of but essentially what he does is he
creates a complete linkage
between and but the other thing which is
that word that I hope that you just now
noticed is that you're
bringing which means what were we
searching for in terms of PES and the
Corban to we were searching for this
element that was missing and the thing
that was missing of course was the and
the then shows up
on which itself is also interesting
which means if I still want to argue
that there is this Corban PES is like a
Corban TOA it's like a Corbin Tor that
became broken up into two where most of
it is taking place on PES and then it's
going to be completed only when I get
toab now of course you know that aside
from the agricultural there's also the
other part of it the theological the
Torah part of it where you have Egypt
and then you have Matan Tor and over
here you have the spring and then you
have the the spring uh the things which
are growing and what I'm trying to
express is that these are not two
separate things things that God took
leaving Egypt and plants it places it
right on top of the spring time in order
that there's going to be this dual
aspect and this dual expression of Joy
this feeling it's going to be the farmer
after working on the entire winter and
planting and plowing suddenly something
is growing that's going to be the
feeling of things coming back to life
which means that the God is building
this incredible background for the pesak
experience the whole background of the
spring is there which means that when it
keeps on telling us and if you want we
we can keep on looking it says a Time
After Time After Time that P is in the
springtime in the again I'm I'm not
going to go through all of these verses
but if you want if you want we could but
it's time if time time it it stresses
this that pesak always has to be in the
springtime here Source
34 Source 35 right
afterwards the emphasis on Spring it's
not just in order for us to be rinded oh
what time of year is pesak no pesak is a
spring holiday and the idea of the Jews
leaving is this idea of coming back to
life sort of like everything happens in
pesak now let me go back a second and
there's still this huge problem the huge
problem is why okay other way around if
bread represents the Yar why is it ever
around so I'm going to read something to
you in the cakar which is in Source
number 13 by the way the kakar had a
near-death experience almost died and he
was known as a great Daran he had the
like the best speeches the best talks
and when he was sick you know we know
what his Corban toada was of course
there's no B mdash he lived a couple
hundred years ago he was a rabbi in
Prague and a preacher in Prague he said
God if I surv survive I'm going to
publish all my talks so everybody else
can use them so I lose my exclusivity CU
that was his uh he had all these great
ideas but he never but he would only
share them when he would talk if he
publishes them then he can no longer use
them and everyone else is going to steal
his stuff so he says I'll publish all of
my talks so he's going to make an
argument that it's an inverse
relationship of what you
think with the bread is the time we get
the Torah why do we get the Torah
because we have AAR
if we didn't have AAR we don't have any
need for Torah which means how do we
have an ability of facing this world
only because we have Torah we only have
then rules telling us this is right and
this is wrong and establishing within us
a moral compass essentially the kaker
argument is I mean he's basing himself
on a gamaran Shabbat where Moshe goes up
to get the Torah and the angels start to
argue with God and say why you giving
the Torah to him and God says talk to
him and Moses like completely frightened
and and Moses you know ask God what is
saying it and then he starts turning on
them he says okay you should leave the
house you're leaving Egypt I'm God who
took you out of the house of slavery
were you slaves but it goes on onor your
parents do you guys have parents and it
goes steal you do you even have AAR you
know to go and steal things and it's at
that point that they back down and they
said okay you're right you know we're
angels we have to do whatever God says
to do which means what he's arguing is
why do we
celebrate with bread because bread
represents thear and it's only because
we have AAR that God gave us the Torah
is that if we didn't have the Torah then
we would not sorry if we didn't have we
wouldn't need the Torah we would be
perfect beings just like M would do
whatever weever we're told which means
essentially we have a process which is
taking place and it's this process of
Freedom part of freedom is being able to
make your own choices part of being a
slave is not having choices leaving
Egypt there's like this Corban toada
aspect of it in terms of thank you for
taking us out of a house of slavery take
thank you for taking us out of prison
thank you for helping us course through
the sea thank you for you know going
through the desert there's all these
reason to say thank you but on the other
hand really to have the ability to make
choices is based upon the it's based
upon the it's based upon this other
aspect to it and therefore the
celebration or the comparison of a PES
with Corb to it does not get completed
until we get to that next stage and we
stand by the by har and receive the
Torah I if you want I can now read if
you want to hear
the one second
I created but I created the antidote and
the anote is
Torah had it not been that we have an
evil
inclination God never would have taken
the Torah from the from the heavens and
given us to love keep
that was the clenching argument of mosha
against the
Angels you have this incredible treasure
you're giving it to
man you want to give it to people made
of flesh and blood again Flesh and Blood
are people who make mistakes who are
very
fragile do you guys even have do you
have an ability of making
ches is that the reason we need Torah is
of course we need to be able to deal
with our Yer har now the what's
interesting is this time then between
feeling
free and between receiving Torah yes do
you understand why I'm saying that's a
problem because when you feel completely
free you can make all kinds of choices
and you receive the Torah then you kind
of limit it to what's
right so essentially every year this
time of year what you're going to have
between p
is a time of we call the OM counting the
and again the real counting as much as
people say oh it's counted between
leaving Egypt and getting by Hari if at
best that's a secondary at best it's
secondary the real thing is it's
something which is completely
agricultural but nonetheless it's a time
which is problematic and so much so that
in Source 16 we're told something which
we all know and that is where has 12,000
pairs of students and when did they
die they during this time which is
really interesting because then it
sounds like they're dying between the
time that is the
beginning but we actually then receive
the the theer we receive the Torah and
the ability of fighting with the ater
har and I just want to focus on that
time and now go to a place which I don't
know at all if you would have
anticipated this but if we're talking
about the Corbin Pak in a certain sense
as the first Corban of am Isel this is
when we begin this is when am Israel
begins this is when we leave Egypt and
we start with the Corban PES which is in
a certain sense a Corban to I want to go
back to the first Corban which is
actually cited in the Torah I mean you
can argue whether but doesn't say it the
first one who brings a carbon is going
to take us back to peric doid yes
remarkably we were back in early parts
of which is really interesting because
she thinks she has acquired a
relationship with God through having
this child
but and then there's kind of like this
afterthought this additional child
he he is a farmer and works the
ground and after a period of time which
we're not tell how much time but it's a
period of time which of course now is a
question how much
time he brings from the things which are
growing he brings an offering to
God and he brings from his
now we have to be more careful he brings
from his very first see that's I always
find that interesting if this is um if
this is passive aggressive he what is
what does he sacrifice he sacrifices the
firstborn now if you're Cen how do you
relate to that right he sacrifices his
first animal but uh I I don't think that
there's anything evil in his mind during
his thought but it says is he also
brings an offering from his
first from the choice
and God CHS he and his offering now what
is interesting about this one is who's
the original the the the person who
first thinks about this idea of offering
something to God that's Ken what does he
bring so you have to work backwards what
does it say me PR from among the things
growing but what does heav he also
brings what does he do he brings the
best there is two different approaches
to I would say religious devotion over
here one person kind of checking the box
and the other person saying no I want to
do this right I want to do this in the
best way I can possibly do it and of
course there should not be surprised
that God accepts the offering of he um
Ken gets enraged Ken goes and kills Heil
and says that afterwards my My Brother's
Keeper and so on and the answer that God
says is yeah you're your brother's
keeper so I I I want to stop with all of
this because there is a really
interesting subtext to everything that I
just now read which is found in the
midash now whether you can actually say
oh yeah I see this in the text is of no
concern to me or not if you see it or
you don't see it what's much more
interesting to me is that the rabbis
decided that oh no there's a subtext
over here and let's and let's try to
understand the
subtext
Raba here we start in 21 we start with
the argument of Les Yeshua when the
world was created again do we have a
Tish world or do we have a Nissan World
when's the beginning of the world which
essentially is if the beginning is
Nissan so the first fruits and the first
everything in Nissan is going to be
interesting but following this up it
says over here those who say that the
world's cre
niss how long did he actually live he
lived from p and therefore he
was that as total he was he was in the
world 50 days now before you ask me I
have no idea what this means he only
lived for 50 days and he was already
working you know one's a farmer and the
others work with the animals and so on I
don't know what this means what is far
more interesting to me is how this
madash took the Cen heav story and
placed it on the time between PES and by
the way that's actually the time that
people don't get along with one another
so therefore you say hold it where is
the really uh the beginning the
archetype of the students of Rea not
getting along with one another oh look
at this Ken kills heo at the same point
of the year so as I said that to me
becomes a bit more interesting um it
continues because the word meit PRI
right it doesn't say meit PRI that
that's what this point down verse 23 and
therefore it
says which means if he was going to
bring Bim then he should have brought
the first but he doesn't bring the first
he brings the end of the previous craft
he brings whatever doesn't has nothing
else to do with if you want we can be
clearer with that but look at the mid in
Source number
24 and again it reads the he story as if
we're dealing up between and and it says
yeah the Jews in the future are going to
bring a Corban a Corban uh PES so
therefore you should bring offerings as
well now if you're not getting yet
what's going on