Hashem’s Favorite Korban

The possuk says, in Sefer Yechezkel, and this is in perek mem gimmel, possuk chof zayin. So, Yechezkel, we know, said nevuah about the third Beis Hamikdash. And in one of his nevuahs, Yechezkel said, "Vi challos hayomim, v'hayah bayom hashmini v'haleh yasoo hakohanim al hamizbeiach The days going to come with the kohanim are going to bring on the mizbeiach es oilosaihem, your oilos, v'es shlomeihem, and your shlomim, v'rotzeesi eschem l'om Hashem Elokeichem." And Hakadosh Baruch Hu says that I'm going to be merutzeh, I'm going to be appeased, I'm going to be satisfied with the korbanos that the kohanim are going to bring. If you take a look at the Vilna Gaon's peirush on Yechezkel, the Gaon says on the words "V'rotzeesi eschem" one word, "b'minchos." So again, the navi Yechezkel said, "Yasoo hakohanim al hamizbeiach es oilosaihem, v'es shlomeihem, v'rotzeesi eschem l'om Hashem." Says the Gaon, "What's v'rotzeesi eschem?" What it means is b'minchos. And at first glance, it's sorech biur, why did the Gaon say "V'rotzeesi eschem b'minchos?" It sounds like we're talking about the oilos and the shlomim. V'rotzeesi eschem on those korbanos. What meant the Gaon when he said "V'rotzeesi eschem b'minchos?" I once heard from Reb Leib Chomsky, who told me that he heard from Hagao Reb Usher Shimon Shapiro, shlita. He said pshat based on another Gaon. And this Gaon is really repeated in two different places. It's in Shnei Eliyahu, that's the Vilna Gaon's peirush on the Shnayos, in the beginning of the fourth perek of meseches Brachos, and it's also in the first perek of meseches Shabbos. So, everybody knows that the Gemara says in meseches Brachos, "Tefillos k'neged temidin tiknum." That the three tefillos that a Yid davens day, Shacharis, Mincha, and Maariv, were instituted connected the carbon tamid. Shacharis was instituted connected the tamid shel shachar. Mincha was instituted connected the tamid shel bein ha'arbayim, and Maariv was instituted connected the akdaras emurim of the tamid shel shachar and the tamid shel bein ha'arbayim. But, the Vilna Gaon said that if you understand it on a deeper level, Shacharis was instituted connected the first chelek of the hakrava of the tamid shel shachar. And Mincha was instituted connected the last chelek of the hakrava of the tamid shel bein ha'arbayim. What was the first avodah of the tamid shel shachar? That's easy. It was shchitah. What was the last avodah of the tamid shel bein ha'arbayim? So, that's not as easy. It was a korban mincha. So, together with every single olah, the ba'al korban, whether it was a yachid or a tzibur, had to bring nesachim, wine that was poured on the mizbei'ach. Together with the nesachim, there was a mincha that was brought. That mincha was known as the minchas nesachim. It's one of the menachos that we reference in the introduction to the daf. The first avodah of the tamid, obviously, was the shchitah. The last was the mincha that came along with the minchas nesachim. Said the Gaon that tefilas Shacharis was instituted connected the haschalah of the avodah of the tamid shel shachar. And tefilas Mincha was instituted connected the haschalah of the hakrava of the tamid shel bein ha'arbayim. Hence, Shacharis is connected shchitah, the shchitah of the tamid shel shachar. And Mincha is connected the mincha, the minchas nesachim of the tamid shel bein ha'arbayim. Says the Vilna Gaon, it's for that reason tfilas Mincha is even referred to as Mincha. Why is it referred to as Mincha? L'chora, it should be referred to as, I don't know, Tamid shel Ben Arbayim. It's because it corresponds, it's m'choven, it's m'choven to the Mincha component of the Tamid shel Ben Arbayim. It's the last avodah of the Tamid shel Ben Arbayim, which was the the Mincha s'zake. The Gaon explains it a little bit deeper. We're all familiar with vasikin, right? So, it's based on a pasuk "U'ru chem shamash" and there's an idea to say "Kri'as Shema" and then ultimately "Shmoneh Esrei" mamash as the sun is rising. Well, not everybody knows, but it's a m'foresh in Gemara, is that just like there's an inyan there's a mitzvah m'na mufchar to daven Shacharis k'vasikin, there's an inyan to daven Mincha k'vasikin as well. Right? "U'ru chem shamash" is true not only for tfilas Shacharis, also for tfilas Mincha. It's a m'foresh in Gemara in the fourth perek of maseches Brachos. Said the Gaon, what's the oimek d'varim? He said the oimek is because Shacharis was connected to Tamid shel Shacharis. It was connected to the schola of the Tamid shel Shacharis. The first korban that was brought every single day in the Beis Hamikdash, oilo rishono, was always the Tamid shel Shacharis. It was brought mamash first thing in the morning. IT WAS BROUGHT K'VASIKIN. AND THAT'S WHY WHEN WE go ahead and we daven Shacharis, you daven "U'ru chem shamash", you daven k'vasikin. But the Mincha that we daven is connected to the of the Tamid shel Ben Arbayim. When did they finish the Tamid shel Ben Arbayim? Oleh Hashleim kol hakorbonos. IT WAS THE LAST thing that was done. SO, IT WAS MAMASH DONE AT THE LAST MINUTE BECAUSE AFTERWARDS you can't do anything else. So, it was done as the sun was setting. And therefore tfilas Mincha, which is connected to the last part, it was connected to the last part, the oleh hashleim kol hakorbonos of the Tamid SHEL BEN ARBAYIM, THEREFORE tfilas Mincha is "U'ru chem shamash", it's also supposed to be as the sun is setting. So, the k'vasikins is also related to the idea that Shacharis is connected to the schola of the Tamid shel Shacharis and Mincha is related to the of the that's why the is called MINCHA CUZ IT'S TO THE MINCHA and then the going goes on and he says the going says everybody knows say right if a person has to pick and choose and decide which should be the most should it be Shacharis should it be Mincha or should it be Maariv says the going you want to know which you should be the most the that you should be the most is says the going why what's he says I'm going to tell you why because is to the Mincha as we just said that's why it's called Mincha and the Mincha the Mincha I quote is it's the choicest of all the the the Torah says and the says that the only time that the Torah refers as to the in the entire as a is when it comes to the Mincha the as the says right at the beginning of Vayikra the the literal of those words is the take the and the of the and they should be but the of the is as Rashi says what does it mean as the the that's over the who the should be when the was brought the carbon all of a sudden had the thinking he remembers him there's this incredible and that has from this carbon that causes the carbon mincha to be malodorous carbon of the Bala carbon and that's why we refer to that as the guy says you only find this by the carbon mincha and if that's the case that mincha is the and it's the only carbon we find this in you nefresh and and it's for that reason Adam Shari O'Leary and the you want to know the the guy says cuz when you dive in mincha you're bringing a carbon mincha that's the and if a year had the opportunity to bring a carbon mincha to ask a roster that he would get the that he would be too through that carbon mincha would be fire and that's why said because when you dive in mincha you're bringing a carbon mincha and a carbon mincha has in it that mile of and that's that in you said that's in this guy the guy said nobody said that there's going to be a day where the guy says as he said the guy said the guy said the guy said in one word what does it mean it means WHY IT'S THE GUY WITH THE GUY SAID THAT THE ONE CARBON that's carbon where you find where you find in you the guy said THE GUY SAID YOU FIND THE GUY THAT'S THE CARBON MINCHA THE GUY SAID the guy said and the truth is I think if you read the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy SAID THE GUY SAID the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy said the guy We say in Shemoneh Esrei every single day, the Orvoshaem Minchas Yehudah v'Yerushalayim. Right? May the Mincha of Yehudah be sweet by Hakadosh Baruchu. Why we emphasizing the Mincha? Because the Mincha is the sweetest of all the korbanos. The Mincha is that one korban that the Torah refers to as askarasa. One other two style. Rebbeinu Yonah in Shaarei Teshuvah, this is in Shaar Rishon Ois Mem Daled. Very, very famous this Rebbeinu Yonah in Koislin Beis Medrash. Rebbeinu Yonah talks about that even after a person does teshuvah, doesn't necessarily mean that his stats status by Hakadosh Baruchu is back to where it was before he did the aveirah. Right? You think you do teshuvah, okay, I'm good to go. Rebbeinu Yonah says it's a mistake. He says, "V'oidi s'palel baal teshuvah al Hashem, even a baal teshuvah, someone who did teshuvah, he should daven to Hakadosh Baruchu, that Hakadosh Baruchu should wipe out his aveiros as if they never happened. V'shiyach oidosav and that Hakadosh Baruchu should want him. V'yiratzeyhu, and Hashem should be merutza by him. V'yehei oser lo kashe'eiru lo chato, and he should view him as if he never did an aveirah. I'm skipping a little bit. Says Rebbeinu Yonah, "Ki yisochain, because it's possible for a person to do teshuvah, and l'yoiser oivin nisfach nistam min hayisurim k'zeh, and the aveirah that he did will be gone, and any g'zeirah that was supposed to come to him because that aveirah he did will be gone. Oiv d'ein Hashem cheifetz bo, but Hakadosh who might still not be interested in having a relationship with him. U'mincha lo ye'etzei b'yado, and his Mincha will not be merutza by him. Mincha lo ye'etzei b'yado. The Mincha is associated with ritzui. And Rebbeinu Yonah in these epic words said that it's possible for a person to do teshuvah and get s'licha u'mechilah. Right? If a person has a run-in with a friend, okay, with somebody that he knows. Amaleichu you, umaleichu me b'leiv shalem, but doesn't necessarily mean we're going for drinks It doesn't necessarily mean we're going to have dinner. 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Says Hakadosh Baruch Hu, the Ani man's Korban, When he brings a Korban, I see it as if not he's done bringing a Korban, he's bringing a Nefesh. For an Ani man to bring a Korban is very difficult thing to do. For the Ani man to give his little Hakrava is more difficult for the Gvir to go ahead and give his big Hakrava, because he's counting every penny, every nickel, every dime. It's very hard for him. And when he goes ahead and he brings the Korban, albeit a measly little Korban, but his Nefesh is in that Korban. Because he just gave away a piece of his soul. Cuz now that he took a little bit of Chitim and a little bit of Shemen and he gave it to Hashem, well, you know what? That's a little less Chitim and a little less Shemen for his family. And because there's such an incredible Mesirus Nefesh literally in that Korban that he's bringing, it's for that reason the Torah refers to the Ba'al Mincha as Nefesh. Amar Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Ani. Just want to say one Oimek. This Ke'ilu, right? We always talk about Ke'ilus. There's so many Ke'ilus in Shas, right? A countless amount of Ke'ilus. This idea that when the brings his mincha, it's malani al of kilo hikriv nafsho lifanav. It's not a random ke'eelu, right? What's the whole time of carbonos? When a yid brought a carbon, what was he trying to do? Stam give a kodosh boruch hu an animal? No, that's not what it was. It was ke'eelu hikriv nafsho, like the Rambam talks about in parshas Vayikra. The whole idea of a carbon is that bring this carbon, and by you bringing this carbon it's going to be nafsho as if you brought yourself. Ke'eelu hikriv nafsho lifanav means that in the time and the sight of carbonos in the heft of what a carbon is supposed TO REPRESENT, THE ANI GETS HIM MORE THAN THE REGULAR person does. It's not like a random you do this as ke'eelu you did that, shkoyach. No, it's you're getting the toyeles and the tachlis and the punchline of what a carbon is supposed to be more than THE OTHER GUY. BECAUSE THE SIGHT OF A CARBON IS you're supposed to be makriv your nefesh. And when the koyehn when the other man went and he brought his carbon mincha, it was literally ke'eelu hikriv nafsho lifanav. The reason the mincha is more merutzo, the reason there's a verutzo see ask him by the carbon mincha. The reason it's lerutzo, the reason it's askoroso, the reason it's mufcha carbonos, it's all related to the fact, like the Gemara says, it says nefesh kos malani al of kilo hikriv nafsho, which is the reason that filus of mincha is the merulesha filus. The sight is rachmona liba boy. Kodosh boruch hu wants our life. Filus of mincha is the smallest check we write to kodosh boruch hu every day. Shachris is a long filus. Ma'ariv is a shtik a long filus because of krias shema. Mincha with a hoychis mana esrei, six and a half minutes, you're done. If you daven in the right place, right? Doesn't take very long. It's the smallest check. It's the minchas ani. But at the same time at the same time it comes with the most mesirus nefesh. Because if a person could daven mincha like a mensch, and for those six and a half minutes he could actually think about a kodosh boruch hu in a way it's the mufchar, it's the merutzo from all the filus that he's ever going to daven. Because what a kodosh boruch hu wants from us is not necessarily a longer davening. What the Kodesh Baruch Hu wants from us is an al ach davening. A davening meitoch mesiras nefesh, right? And that's really what tefillah is all about. The mincha represents this inyan of it's hard, it's it's difficult, it's a mesiras nefesh, but I wish I'm going to give it to you. And for some people it could be a financial contribution that's hard for them to give. And for somebody else it could be it's in his moach. And for somebody else it could be it's in his guf. But the lesson of the mincha, it being the mufcha korbanos, and it being the oilam deratzin deverotzisius dever oilam mincha it's related to the fact that it comes with a tremendous amount of mesiras nefesh. The said Adam betfilas because it's to the carbon mincha. I think it's the oilam in the posuk side in the oilam Adam betfilas mincha. The posuk side is cook the mesiras nefesh. That's guf FOR WHY THE MINCHA IS the mufcha korbanos. Which is why there's a maila to tefilas mincha. But either way, the mincha again it's it's just it's just we always say it's just a couple of carbs, right? It's a very very billig of the you should know these little carbs this little bit of and it's shamen. They have such a nachas ruach from it. So much more than all these big grubba shmacka korbanos in a klal u klal. When we davening to the Kodesh Baruch Hu we say mincha it's always the carbon mincha. It's because it comes with mesiras nefesh. And at the end of the day that's really what the wants from us. What he wants from us is the mesiras nefesh, the rachmanus she zoicha. Then here be amenu to the oilam hashem mincha dever oilam may oilam u chamin yes.