Vayikra: Did Adam Harishon Sacrifice a Unicorn?

Yeah. Safer Vayikra, parshas Vayikra begins Adam ki yakriv mikem. If a man will offer a carbon, Rashi, the Kli Yakar, based on the Vayikra Rabbah, understand that this is a reference not just to a person, but it's a reference to Adam, Adam Harishon. Adam ki yakriv mikem. When was Adam makriv a carbon? Well, the Gemara says in Shabbos kaf chesam beis, in Chullin samech amud alef, shor shehikriv Adam Harishon keren achas hoyso l'eyvo m'mitzrayim. The animal, the ox, the cow that Adam Harishon was makriv, had one horn coming out of its forehead. Why would he bring an animal that had a horn, one horn, coming out of its forehead? Usually animals have two horns coming out of their head. What is the meaning, what is the symbolism of this Gemara? Says the Maharsha Maseches Chullin, daf samech, the reason Adam was makriv an animal that had one horn coming out of its forehead, the word keren denotes primacy. Ikkar hadavar, like the hakaren kayemes l'eyla l'olam haba. Now, Adam Harishon in his sin, he was inclined toward apikorsus. He believed chas v'shalom in shniyos, like the Gemara says in Sanhedrin Adam Harishon was a min, and he was kofer b'ikkar. Hashem said, "Ayeka? Where do you tilt? Where do you turn?" We learn this from the word ayeka, ayey on noytel libecha. So, Adam Harishon was somewhat susceptible to a lack of emunah. Therefore, when he returned and he repented and he wanted to rectify his sin, he brought a shor that had one keren that denoted the achdus haborei that he was returning to. The Ramah, Rabbi Moshe Isserles, wrote a sefer on the Avodah, it's called Toras Ha'Olah, and in perek ayin beis, the Ramah brings and elaborates further what is the significance that this keren came out of the meitzach, the forehead, of the animal. Well, it says the Ramah, the main objective of bringing a carbon is to show that Hashem created the world and to proliferate this knowledge, which is the foundation of the whole Torah. So, therefore, there was one keren coming out of the forehead of this animal. The forehead refers to the seichel. The seichel is in the meitzach, like HaMelech says, "Chacham einav b'rosho." So, to show that Adam Harishon was returning to the knowledge of the achdus haborei that he was misboynen in his seichel, he brought a unicorn. Shor sounds like some kind of unicorn, some kind of animal with one horn that reflected the achdus haborei that Adam Harishon was returning to in his carbon. Adam ki yakriv mikem. And it's teaching that the foundational principle of all the carbonos is to revert back to the belief in achdus haborei. Wishing everyone a wonderful day.