Shnayim Yomi - Tzav - Shishi - #6 - Rabbi Yehoshua Sova - Approaching With Openness

In the sixth Aliyah we find Vayak'ter Hamizbe'ach. Rashi is quick to point out that this specific incident, Moshe Rabbeinu went for the entire seven days of the practice run leading up to Rosh Chodesh Nissan, that this was going to be the time that he would show Aaron HaKohen what a Kohen Gadol needs to do in order to properly serve in the Beis Hamikdash, in the Mishkan. And Rashi tells us Moshe Rabbeinu served the entire seven-day period b'chaluk lavan, with a white cloth. Now, the question is, why? We know the Kohen Gadol not necessarily necessarily had a chaluk lavan. He didn't have white clothing. Why specifically here? So, we believe maybe one could say it says Vayak'ter Hamizbe'ach. Ketores sometimes had a smell, sometimes it had burn marks, sometimes it the powder got on there. And yet Moshe Rabbeinu wanted to show b'chaluk lavan. This is something that I'm going with an open mind. Lavan, white, completely absorbs any other color, any other scent. It's completely parve, as they say, bland. Coming in to accept as much as possible to be able to have a full experience. A person should know that as well. When you are going to be mak'tir al hamizbe'ach, to bring something to Hashem, you have to go in with an open mind. You have to be able to say to yourself, "What is it that I can learn from this experience? Now, what am I giving? What can I learn from this?" And be humble and say, just like Moshe Rabbeinu was mishamesh the seven days of milu'im, teaching others, yet he was wearing b'chaluk lavan to show, "I'm willing to absorb and see what is it that I can learn to inculcate in myself to be able to learn for the future."