{"id":82984,"date":"2020-11-08T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=82984"},"modified":"2020-11-08T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T12:47:25","slug":"does-god-want-sacrifices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/does-god-want-sacrifices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God Want Sacrifices?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"82984","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"607","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Another perspective on an age-old question\u00a0\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On two previous occasions, we took note of prophets railing against the prevailing idea that God was more interested in ritual sacrifice than obedience to His law. After Saul disobeyed a direct divine order (to annihilate Amalek), Samuel said: \u201cDoes God desire <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">olah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sacrifices or obedience to His voice?\u201d (1 Samuel 15:22), and Jeremiah, harking back to the theophany at Sinai, said: \u201cI neither spoke to your ancestors nor commanded them on the day I took them out of Egypt, in matters of sacrifice or offerings\u201d (7:22).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That very theme appears to be struck here, too: \u201cYou gave me to understand that You do not desire sacrifice and meal offering; You do not ask for burnt offering and sin offering\u201d (7). How does this connect\u2014a la Jeremiah\u2014to the era of the exodus from Egypt? See the next verse: \u201cThen I said, See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me\u201d (8), which Rashi identified with the era of the exodus as \u201cthe day on which the Torah was given.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should you ask: But the Torah is replete with commandments regarding many varieties of sacrifices, some to be brought daily? Radak anticipated your question, to which he replied (7), at some length.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God\u2019s initial instructions to Israel were only that they should obey Him, as stated at Marah: \u201cIf you obey the Lord your God and do that which is upright in His eyes\u2026\u201d (Exodus 15:26). [However,] when they began to sin, He instructed them about sacrifices\u2014individual and communal; individual sacrifices brought by sinners and communal ones to be brought regularly. Since it is likely that there would be many sinners who might not know which sacrifices to bring, the daily communal offerings atone for them\u2014if they repent. 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