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04/05/2023 11:26:55 AM

Apr5

"Command Aharon and his sons, this is the teaching of the elevating offering, It is the elevating offering…"(6,2)

Lack of money/covering

On the verse "Command Aharon and his sons saying this is the teaching of the elevating offering…" Rashi explained per the Medrash Torat Cohanim "Command is only used to hasten. Rabbi Shimon said, the verse must especially hasten in a place where there is a lack of money.

The righteous Rabbi Yitchak Meir of Gur, author of the Chidushei HARIM explains the words of Rabbi Shimon according to what the Sages ob'm say that the elevating offering atones for sins that a person transgresses in thought, as it says, "Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said, "the elevating offering only comes to atone for thoughts of the heart."

The author of the Chidurshei HARIM says that if we look into a person's limbs that cause him to sin we see that each of them has a "pocket" that covers them so that he should not sin with them. The eyes have a covering, the eyelids, that cover the eyes when necessary so that he doesn't look at something bad; likewise the tongue has the teeth and lips that close and cover the tongue so that he doesn't speak slander. The ears as well have "poles", as our Sages have said – If a person hears something improper he should put his fingers in his ears.

We find that each limb has a "pocket"/covering to prevent him from sinning.

However, thoughts in our head do not have a covering to prevent them from bursting forth at any time and therefore a person can easily come to strange or bad thoughts unless he guards himself with all his strength and therefore it is just by the elevating offering that the holy Torah uses the word "command", a word to hasten, as Rabbi Shimon said and Rabbi Shimon comes to explain why we need extra hastening for this offering.

Rabbi Shimon said, "The verse must hasten especially in a place where there is a lack of money/covering"- in other words, the Torah must push a person to make him fear in a place where there is a lack of covering – in a person's brain where his thoughts have no covering that come naturally stop it from coming to sin.

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