Tzav - Olot Atone For Heart Thoughts
Rashi explains that this pasuk teaches us that the offering of the innards and the bones - hekter chalavim ve’eivarim - is kosher all night long. An explanation is needed as to why this law, which applies to all korbanot, is taught specifically regarding the Korban Olah. There is also a need for explanation regarding why the Olah is completely burned, why it is different than other korbanot-offerings, particularly the Chatat, which is for a wrong action, as opposed to an Olah, which is only for a thought. The sacrifice for wrong thoughts is treated more stringently than the sacrifice for wrong actions!
The Olah is in the tzafon, because someone doesn’t know the hidden thoughts of his friend. And the chataat is in the same place, but why? Regarding the chataat the sins are revealed. The answer is the Olah is at the root of the Chataat. How does it happen that one trips and sins unintentionally, it’s because of thoughts/heart desires that came first. The person doesn’t do it because it’s forbidden, but there’s a connection to the sin due to the thought, and that leads to tripping and sinning beshogeg. The Olah, thus is the source of the Chataat, that’s why they are shechted and offered in the same place. A person holds back from wrong action due to yir’ah/fear, but he still has the ashamah/guilt/responsibility regarding the heart thoughts.
Chazal say that thought of sin/hirhurei aveirah are harsher than actual sins/gufei aveirah. This is because the thought is the root of every sin, the poisonous rot who’s head raises itself - poreh rosh vela’anah, that thing from inside that grabs you. It’s the source of all sin, the eye seeing- the thought in the brain seeing - the poisonous poreh rosh… So the hirhur aveirah are stranger/harsher than the sin itself, being the root of all evil.
It’s specifically by Olah that the law is the the fat and limb burning is kosher all night long. Chazal: What’s used/happens through fire gets purified through fire. Magid of Kozhnitz: Sins that happen through fire must be fixed by fire, whitened by fire, totally burned/purified by holy fire- havlah mafik havlah - hot air removes hot air, fight fire with fire.
Thus Chameitz must be removed by burning because it hints to a point of evil that must be burnt, has to be burnt. This is in opposition to that heart feeling, the poisonous root raising up and grabbing, only burning it out, only way. That’s the idea of the Olah burning all night till morning. The tikun for thoughts of the heart are only through the Mizbeach’s fire. This is why the rule of burning all night is said by Olah though it applies to all korbanot, because the heart’s inclinations are the source of all sins, causes to sin incidentally, so it’s the source for the law of burning.
The Olah is described as an exception, korbanot were generally in the day, but this one burns all night. The fire corresponds to the night, the source of desires. In the night the Sitrah Achrah has strongest power, negative/evil thoughts are strongest at night. The fire on the Mizbeach is holy and combats the negative fire, havlah… It parallels/opposes the physicality of desires for bad things. It burned the tamei fire of tarot of the hearts.
The Menorah’s light of awareness is related and shines in our wisdom, and it’s mitzvah is through the night. It enlightens the time of darkness and allows us to see/be aware of The King standing over us.
G-d, in his mercy, created the cure to the makkah - illness - blow from inside the illness itself. When we sin, hidden inside that sin is how it happened to go against G-d’s will. Psalm 51: The sacrifices/offerings of G-d Zivchei Elokim (that he favors) is the broken spirit/ruach nishberah. Thebroken spirit atones. He broken heart is a whitening fire, burning out/destroying the sin.
This, however, only applies to action sins, as when one sins via action the heart breaks. But when sins vis thoughts he doesn’t feel so badly because he doesn’t so much feel like he did something wrong. But thoughts are big, kashin-harsher than the actual behavior, but a person doesn’t feel it and doesn’t have awareness, doesn’t have the broken heart. So the Torah tells us the Torah of the Olah, burns through the night. This holy fire is called for regarding twisted thoughts of the heart because they lack the medicinal quality of coming with a broken heart. So it has to be completely burnt. Unlike sin offerings where the Kohein eats the meat of the Korban. The Olah is fully burned because none of is eaten, because it lacks the broken heart as an offering, so it has to be fully burned to fix the blemish it comes to fix.
The eternal Holy Torah teaches us that today sins of the heart need a response of fire/self sacrifice - going beyond yourself. Anything that happens through fire is purified through fire. This is what it says, the Olah burns all night. Today without the beis HaMikdash we are in the realm of darkness. And we have the burning fire through Torah and Avodah as our Olah. To address these thoughts the only advice is fighting with holy fire, mesirus nefesh, and thus removing the evil powers that enter us.
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