This
second thought is from Rav Avigdor Millel Zatzal. This thought is also a Yesod
on Sefer Vayikra. The Posuk in (הַשִּׁירִים שִׁיר) 4:16 says (עוּרִי צָפוֹן וּבוֹאִי תֵימָן) which the Gemara translates to mean until the Bais Hamikdash
was built, Korbanos were brought only in the North area of the Mizbaiach and
now they can be brought in the south side as well. What does that mean?
A Goy
can only bring a Korban Olah. A Korban Olah is Shechted in the north. So Chazal
Darshuned that (עוּרִי צָפוֹן) wake up that which was brought only in
the north and (וּבוֹאִי תֵימָן) now Korbanos are brought anywhere in the
Bais Hamikdash and it refers to the other Korbanos like Shelamim etc. which
were brought by Klal Yisrael.
A Goy
can only bring a Korban Olah. A Jew can bring a Korban which he can eat. This
includes the Shelamim, the Todah, the Pesach. The significance of this he
explains is as follows. The Ben Noach only understands Kedusha, something that
is purely spiritual. That is a Korban Olah. That is the way it is among the non
Jews, those that don’t have a deeper understanding of Avodas Hashem. They
understand that something that is totally Kadosh is Kadosh, however, if someone
can make Olam Hazeh Kadosh, his eating is Kadosh, is something that requires a
much higher level. For that, only Klal Yisrael was privileged to bring a
Shlomim. Where their own eating becomes something of a higher Kedusha. So that
the Bais Hamikdash represents this higher level. Taking these pleasures of Olam
Hazeh and being Mikadeish them. Something which requires a great effort to do.
I once
saw that in Uri Zohar’s book, (Uri Zohar being the great Baal Teshuva, the
leader of the Baal Teshuva movement), who shortly after becoming a Baal Teshuva
wrote and explained feelings of secular Jews towards Religious Jews. He wrote that a secular Jew can understand
someone who is Religious because he behaves in a way that separates himself
from the pleasures of this world. Someone can understand that that is a higher
level. However, someone who can enjoy the pleasures of this world and bring
that to a higher level of Kedusha. Someone who eats plenty of Kosher food but
makes a Beracha and says now it is a Mitzvah or eats on Shabbos and Yom Tov and
says the eating is a Mitzvah and the pleasures of this world are a Mitzvah, that
is something that a secular Jew finds difficult to appreciate. That is this
idea of (עוּרִי צָפוֹן וּבוֹאִי
תֵימָן). The Bais Hamikdash is
a place where eating the meat of the Korbanos (the Gemara says to eat it in a
Geshmake way). You are supposed to eat it with mustard, you are supposed to eat
it in a way that you will enjoy. This is because you are elevating the
pleasures of Olam Hazeh with Kedusha and that is a challenge of the Bais
Hamikdash. These are 2 ideas that give a
deeper understanding of the whole Parsha of the Korbanos.
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