Vayikra - Self Sacrifice | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is dski and welcome to the paraa in five and we start a new safer safer VRA and the Latin term that people use in English is Leviticus we of course call V uh the K referred to it as tus kahim and this is an introduction to the concept of corbon and there is a very important right at the beginning of the par wherein he brings a m between himself and the rambam as to what the purpose of coronos are now I've told this story before I'm sure but Pas VRA is really the correct place for it um I heard this reform and cons an orthodox Rabbi discussing Tish and the fellow says to the Orthodox rabbi do you think TSH is still relevant today and he says yes of course because the B of MDES was destroyed because of Senseless hatred and we still have senseless hatred so yes of course it applies he says so you're looking forward to the rebuilding of the temple and he says yes I am with animal sacrifices and you could hear him gasp like gag and uh he began to just fall apart and be like well I mean of course there are different views on this I mean there's one view that in the future it would only be from the vegetable Kingdom but that's really a minority View and I turn to the re Rabbi he goes no of course not animal sacrifice yeah and I heard this and I said wow but for the grace of God so go I and I realize that um you can get stumped on a question but if you then don't go back and think about it you're going to have to deal with it all over again and I sat down and I worked on it and saidwhat is it that I that I'm I'm having a block where's the problem and I realized there's something about slitting the throat of the Little Goat and catching its blood and then running Barefoot through the blood to the MB and throwing it on the side and cutting it open taking it inside washing in a bucket that is a little uh problematic for people and I'm a Cohan you understand I have to say but I think about it so that means as I always say the hardest question to answer is the question that you have to answer for yourself so I sat down to work it it on myself you know I used to teach in or Goan one of the more than once a guy would say to me I can give you an answer but I can't do that little laugh that you do at the end and that really closes the deal I said that's because the little laugh at the end shows that I actually believe what I'm saying that's why yeah anyway sure enough six months later I was teaching at the Discovery and a guy raises his hand and says okay Rabbi what about animal sacrifices expecting me to gag and I said what about him he he didn't know what to say so he says well uh you it's barbaric I said why he say barbarians do it I said barbarians eat lunch do you eat lunch not everything in a barbarian does is barbaric well you killing animals are you a vegetarian no how do you think they get the meat think they go to a cow and say hey LSC could you spare a rib well I'm not there when it happens oh no problem you can appoint a hit coing to take the cow out for you you don't have to do nothing and he was stuck CU he never really thought about it I said let me rephrase your question I could understand killing an animal for a positive reason like me having a hamburger is there any positive reason to bring a Corbin he says uh yeah I guess that's my question I said you're right the word kurban is in English they say sacrifice we're not sacrificing anything we want to get close to and we're bringing something to Hashem that has meaning I'm offering up myself that's why it's an animal you don't really feel much of an emotional attachment when you s slice that tomato even though you see the blood dripping down it's not the same thing but you relate to an animal and when you see that animal being slaughtered and brought on the mbak you say that's me I want to come so close to Hashem that I will bring myself all of corbo are there for one purpose to be able to bring us close to hasem that's why it's a Corban to come close and when we bring the Carbono and the whole it's interesting when a little kid starts learning in the first thing they teach them isra because you start by learning about the and the Kim that we bring the Holiness that comes from being close to as we embark on this safer it's going to be with an eye towards us creating that kadus though we have no B mikdash and we have no K we can be that Corbin and bring ourselves close to Hashem jobs