Why Does G-d Want Our Cows?

This is Dowski with our question and answer series where in a very short period of time I try to give an answer and uh this one was submitted by someone called Rabbi Sally. I don't really think it's Rabbi Sally, but it could be. It would not surprise me. We have people of all walks in life. I've gotten letters from conservative rabbis and reformed rabbis and different people from different parts maybe. What is the purpose of animal sacrifice? Why does God want our cows? Uh God doesn't want our cows. He's got plenty of cows. If he needs them, he can always make more. Right. The reason why we bring and sacrifice is such a bad word. An offering. It's a gift. A is a gift, right? We give that because we want to give something and ultimately we want to give ourselves. You remember the song? It was so beautiful. >> [singing] >> In my heart, I'm going to build a Mishkan, a tabernacle of Mishkan. [singing] And in that Mishkan, I'm going to put an altar. And you know what? I'll sacrifice my own life. That's what we ultimately we want to give. Now, I could offer up a tomato, but most people don't feel like vegetables. There are some people look like vegetables, but most people don't look like vegetables. They don't feel like vegetables. You don't see it as something that's like you. But when you see an animal, you have an association with it. There's this horrible thing that somebody told me about that they ask girls in Shidim, what kind of an animal do you see yourself as? What a terrible thing to ask. Bas compare herself to an animal. But the idea that we see ourselves our nephesh Bahamas, we see ourselves in that animalistic aspect. When we sh that, we see ourselves as being shucked in. When we throw that dam, we see our dam is being shaken. It's as if we're offering up ourselves. And that's why when uh Hashem told Abraham to bring his son as an offering, he didn't mean to actually kill him. Mean just bring him up as an offering. But then he sheed a goat. And as the kazal say, everything he did, he had in mind as if this was his son. I'm sheing my son. I'm catching the the blood. I'm throwing it. I'm burning it. Everything that I was going to do that I did to this ram, I look at it as if I was doing it to my son. When a person brings a curban, ideally they're supposed to have that feeling that I'm offering it up. When assho says, I don't need your are just slaughterings. I don't need you to slaughter an animal for me. If you're having an offering, you're having a which is to come close that you feel that you've given your life to that's something valuable but just a slaughter cows I don't need that and so said we're going to lose the basto doesn't need a schllock house people just shing animals for him he doesn't need that so uh mitem when we appreciate what it means means to offer ourselves to come close to we will be to be able to have a base of mikdash. In the meantime, we will build that mishkan in our hearts as the says mikdashi. I will dwell inside of you, inside of your heart. This is David with the question and answer series.