Parashat Vayikra 5778 - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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it. We have to say to ourselves, wait a second. The kobanote were applicable probably expired around 2,000 years ago. Now it's not really so relevant anymore. Why do we focus on it? Why are there so much of the parot on it? As we know that the midash brings down that the young children start from that's what they begin from. And to this very day, there's a minhag that if they don't do the beginning, because this is a little bit dry for younger kids, at a little bit dry for younger kids, at least they do the first few of the to to fulfill that beginning of. And you ask yourself, well, all of this and we're going to be reading this week and we read next week and the week after a whole slew of parot that are seemingly uh irrelevant because sacrifices aren't brought today. But in truth that's not the fact and we are actually contradicted by what we say three times every single day in the we have a in that we mention a phrase we say which means the ish is like the fire the sacrifices of the Jews and their prayers You should accept lovingly. Now I understand prayers that makes sense that the prayers should be accepted that we're praying to we want to be answered. I get that. But the the is the I get that. But the the is the sacrifices should be accepted. That implies that we're offering sacrifices which we're not doing. How does that make any sense? Why do we pray every single day that our sacrifices should be accepted? What sacrifices? There are no sacrifices. And this question is asked by a few commentaries. The earliest of which is the in the very very end of the he brings up this issue and the way to address it is through the midash. Midash

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1. 0:30it. We have to say to ourselves, wait a second. The kobanote were applicable probably expired…
2. 4:43accidentally. He comes to bet mikdash to rectify. And there's really two elements that he needs…
3. 8:50difficult thing for a person to work on himself. And truth of the matter is one…
4. 12:55when did you have time to put on the in order to actually come on time…
5. 16:59for long periods of times. Kan was actually the one to get to become religious in…
6. 21:07have a death of a child that he's going to use a part of the body…
7. 25:13I went to the person who sells the animals and I said I'm looking for aim…
8. 29:19starving literally to death. They had to find a place to eat. It was already in…
9. 33:25he's not going to fall off that bed. Even though he's not conscious of what he's…
10. 37:36that will hold you accountable when you do that sh when you have that sh there…

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