Why Smell Is the Holiest Sense - Rabbi Moshe Borger

Smell is actually the holiest of all the senses. What does that mean? It means when it came to the sin, the original sin of Adam, where he ate from the tree of knowledge, it says every single sense was involved in the sin. He looked at the fruit. He listened to his wife, to Hava, to Eve. He touched the fruit and he tasted the fruit. There was only one sense, only one sense that was not affected, and that was smell. He never smelled the fruit. So they say that the sense of smell is actually the most spiritual of all of the senses because the original sin was not connected to smell. And smell we know is a very very spiritual sense, whereas our other senses very much are invoking of physical drives. The sense of smell, even though it can be used for physical drives, is a very spiritual thing. You can smell something, you can smell something, something you can sometimes you can like it's like the of Yaakov, of Gan Eden was smelled when Jacob came to Yitzchak to get his bracha. He could smell the scent of Gan Eden, of the Garden of Eden on on