The Korban Todah is the only Korban a Yachid can bring that
has Chomeitz in it. There is actually a Lav in the beginning of this week’s
Parsha against bringing a Korban that has Chomeitz in it. What is the
significance of the Chomeitz in the Korban Todah and why is it the only Korban
that has Chomeitz in it?
As we approach Pesach we know that Chomeitz is a sign of the
Yeitzer Horah. A sign of things that are not good and are not spiritual.
Chomeitz is Matzah with hot air in it, a lot of nothing. Therefore, it is a
sign of something negative. A Korban Todah is brought after a person was saved
from a difficulty as thanksgiving to the Ribboinoi Shel Oilam. A person does
not bring a Korban Todah after something good happens to him. If you win the
lottery you do not bring this Korban. It is only when you have a Sakana and are
saved from it that you bring the Korban Todah. Therefore, Rav Zevin explains
the idea of the Chomeitz in the Korban Todah is precisely this, every time a difficulty
falls on a person, and a person is faced with a danger and is ultimately saved,
you bring a Korban Todah that has Chomeitz and Matzah. You are recognizing that
there was Chomeitz, or Aveiros that brought the something negative, and that
you were saved. The Korban Todah is the recognition of the Chomeitz and the
Matzah of the experience.
As a matter of fact today instead of the Korban Todah we say
the Brocha of Hagoimel which says Hagoimel L’chayavim
Toivois. We recognize that there was something lacking in us that brought about
this Sakanah.
The Har Tzvi, Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank says this is the reason
that the custom is that after a woman gives birth she does not say Birchas
Hagoimel. It would seem that she should say Birchas Hagoimel as childbirth is
deemed a Sakanah?
The Har Tzvi explains, a Korban Todah is brought only for
Chayavim Toivois, that a person came into a Sakanah only because of an Aveira,
however, a woman who gave birth it is a Mitzvah and not an Aveira that brought
her into Sakanah. It is a Mitzvah to have children. So a woman can’t say
Hagoimel L’chayavim Toivois because
they are not Chayavim.
With this a second question is answered. The Minhag is that
Ketanim don’t Bentch Goimel. Every other Beracha we are Mechaneich children to
say so why is Birchas Hagoimel different? The simple answer is that our custom
is to Bentch Goimel after an Aliyah which a Kattan does not have. However, the
Halacha is that you don’t need an Aliyah according to everyone in order to
Bentch Goimel. Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank explains that Hagoimel L’chayavim Toivois, and since a Kattan
can never be considered Chayav he doesn’t get punishment for those things that
he did. If he came into a Sakana it wasn’t because of Chayavim Toivois and
therefore the language of the Beracha is totally inappropriate for a Kattan so
he wouldn’t Bentch Goimel.
So the explanation of this unique Korban the Korban Todah
that has Chomeitz fits well with the concept of Chag HaPesach, the idea that
Chomeitz represents negativity or a failing in Avoidas Hashem.
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