Good evening everyone!
I would like to share an interesting point that I learned through Rabbi Leibtag’s article that we read for our project. He mentions how man’s desire for meat is “animalistic” and by bringing a korban shlamim (my korban!) we are channeling those animal-like behaviors in order to enhance our relationship with Hashem.
I would first like to point out that it is pretty cool how bringing this specific korban is reenacting the same ceremony that Hashem and the nation had at Har Sinai. This makes it the ideal korban nedava!
We learn that when we bring the korban shlamim, nobody is to eat the “chaylev” or “dam,” the specific fats from the animal or the blood. This is not only a rule for the korban back then, it is a law that was taught to be passed down for future generations.
This interested me a lot because it gave me some reason for all of those people who “hate” korbanot so much to have at least one positive thought about them. Even though we do not have the mishkan or beit hamikdash today, we are able to feel a certain sense of kedusha nowadays by knowing that every time we eat meat, we are not eating the specific fats and blood that we were commanded not to eat from the korbanot. When eating meat, we should remember that we are eating it in a different way in order to maintain that kedusha. If we stop and think about it once in a while, it could even help some of us feel a certain sense of closeness to Hashem as well. (which is the main purpose of the korban in the first place.)
I would like to share an interesting point that I learned through Rabbi Leibtag’s article that we read for our project. He mentions how man’s desire for meat is “animalistic” and by bringing a korban shlamim (my korban!) we are channeling those animal-like behaviors in order to enhance our relationship with Hashem.
I would first like to point out that it is pretty cool how bringing this specific korban is reenacting the same ceremony that Hashem and the nation had at Har Sinai. This makes it the ideal korban nedava!
We learn that when we bring the korban shlamim, nobody is to eat the “chaylev” or “dam,” the specific fats from the animal or the blood. This is not only a rule for the korban back then, it is a law that was taught to be passed down for future generations.
This interested me a lot because it gave me some reason for all of those people who “hate” korbanot so much to have at least one positive thought about them. Even though we do not have the mishkan or beit hamikdash today, we are able to feel a certain sense of kedusha nowadays by knowing that every time we eat meat, we are not eating the specific fats and blood that we were commanded not to eat from the korbanot. When eating meat, we should remember that we are eating it in a different way in order to maintain that kedusha. If we stop and think about it once in a while, it could even help some of us feel a certain sense of closeness to Hashem as well. (which is the main purpose of the korban in the first place.)
Aviva! What a great thing you are blogging about!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you.
Even though I totally disagree with korbanot, I recognize that we do get some practical things from them.
However, could there have been any other way to teach us these things? Like, if there weren't korbanot, couldn't the Torah still have said somewhere that you weren't supposed to do these things?
I still think korbanot are weird.
Yeah they might be a little odd, but you know how boring it is to just be told these things. It is not always very effective and a person wouldn't feel the same connection with Hashem without these physical actions. That's why they complained and built the golden calf in the first place because they wanted to serve Hashem through a physical thing, spiritually it was too difficult.
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