There are different possibilities of why one must bring Korban Asham:
It could be because one sinned by mistake or was uncertain if he sinned but another reason is because one stole from others.
If one has stolen something, he must bring the Korban asham and give it back plus a fifth extra for penalty.
My question to you is:
1.Do you think a person who stole should have the option to do tshuva so easily? Shouldn't there be a harsher punishment for these people? Why do they bring the same Korban as people who sinned by mistake?
These are lovely questions!
ReplyDeleteI think that it is really unfair for a person who stole on purpose to just get away with it by bringing a korban. They definitely deserve a harsher punishment. It seems weird to me that G-d would allow this to happen because then people would sin on purpose all the time knowing that all they had to do was bring an korban for what they did. Maybe it wasn't that simple though. However, I don't think that what korban they bring really makes such a difference. The korbanot are separated into different categories and one is the korban for sins, whether they were on purpose or not. It seems like the categories are more simple because if there were different korbanot for everything, the whole system would become complicated.
I hope that you take these questions you are asking and look at how the meforshim address them.
ReplyDeleteRemember that the korban chatat is for people who sinned UNINTENTIONALLY. If they sinned on purpose they were either punished by the beit din if there were witnesses and they were warned or punished by Hashem if there were no witnesses and they were not warned.