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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, in <\/span>Likutei Torah<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> says that when we brought a sacrifice to God, we were actually offering ourselves: our faculties, our energies, our thoughts and our emotions. That is the explanation Rabbi Jonathan Sacks relies on to explain the odd grammar in the opening words of the book of Leviticus. Leviticus 1:2 is commonly translated as \u201cWhen one of you offers a sacrifice.\u201d The Hebrew for that would naturally be \u201c<\/span>adam mikem ki yakriv<\/span><\/em>.\u201d <\/span><\/i>But, in fact, the words are<\/span> \u201c<\/span><\/i> adam ki yakriv mikem<\/span><\/em>\u201d <\/span><\/i>which translates more literally to \u201cwhen one offers a sacrifice of you.\u201d In this case, Rabbi Sacks says in the name of Rabbi <\/span>Shneur Zalman <\/span>, \u201cof you\u201d refers to offering oneself to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The connection between an offering and our inner selves is most apparent in the category of offerings called <\/span>sh\u2019lamim<\/span>. <\/span>Sh\u2019lamim<\/span><\/em> is usually translated as a peace-offering since the word is derived from \u201c<\/span>shalom<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i>\u201d These are the offerings brought to express one\u2019s gratitude to God, to recognize God\u2019s goodness. It seems strange then, that the word for this offering isn\u2019t related to thankfulness or gratitude (although a specific type of <\/span>sh\u2019lamim<\/em> <\/span>is called a thanksgiving offering.) Rashi suggests that \u201cshalom\u201d is an apt name for this type of offering, because expressing gratitude for God\u2019s goodness has the spiritual capacity to increase peace in the world. Nachmanides (the Ramban) takes it one step further, referencing the derivation of <\/span>sh\u2019lamim<\/em> <\/span>from the word \u201c<\/span>shleimut<\/span><\/em>,\u201d meaning wholeness. These offerings are not motivated by a need for atonement, but rather, says Ramban, by a sense of wholeness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Collins English Dictionary defines a \u201cpeace offering\u201d as referring to something that one person gives another person to signal that they want to end a disagreement. Similarly, Merriam Webster defines it as a gift for the purpose of procuring peace or reconciliation. But that is not at all the biblical meaning. Dictionary.com offers two possible definitions, the first similar to other dictionaries and the second coming much closer to our biblical understanding: \u201ca sacrificial offering made in order to assure communion with God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cIf his sacrifice is a <\/span>sh'lamim<\/em> <\/span>offering, if he brings it from cattle, whether male or female, unblemished he shall bring it before the Lord\u201d (verse 1). Why is this sacrifice called a <\/span>shlamim<\/span><\/em>? Rashi gives two answers. Both answers connect <\/span>sh'lamim<\/em> <\/span>with the word shalom. His first answer is that the <\/span>sh'lamim<\/em> <\/span>brings peace into the world, although Rashi does not explain why. Other commentators explain that the <\/span>sh'lamim<\/em> <\/span>brings peace into the world through the connection between God and the person bringing the sacrifice. Rashi\u2019s other answer is that the <\/span>sh'lamim<\/em> <\/span>creates harmony between the altar, the priest, and the person who brings the sacrifice because they all receive a portion of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chizkuni takes a different approach. The word <\/span>sh'lamim<\/em> <\/span>is from the word <\/span>tashlumim<\/span><\/em>, meaning payment for something. The sacrifice is the payment of a vow of the person who gave the sacrifice. The gemara in Kritot 7a explains that the individual bringing the sacrifice must do so willingly. If he is forced to bring it, then it does not atone for him. The name of the sacrifice also evokes the following verse from Genesis: \u201cJacob arrived <\/span>shalem<\/em> <\/span>in the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan\u201d (Gen. 33:18). Rashi there explains that <\/span>shalem <\/span><\/i>meant that Jacob was complete in mind and body. Likewise, the sacrifice here is also given by someone who feels whole, and in a state to give a gift to God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Not for the squeamish, Leviticus 3 lays bear more details about animals parts than I care to notice. <\/span>The fat that covers the entrails. The protuberance on the liver. The two kidneys<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> All of these are burned on the altar by the priest, in the giving of the \u201csh'lamim<\/em>\u201d offering. Bloody and up-close, the verses bring into sharp focus a presumed intimacy with slaughtered animals that is worlds apart from my anesthetized food shopping culture. And there is little of me that mourns this loss; I celebrate my choice to eat largely grains, beans and vegetables and to remove from sight the red, fleshy insides of animals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet, one small detail in the description of the sacrifice grabs my attention and holds it steady. When a person offers the sacrifice before the LORD, <\/span>he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> At the moments before the slaughter, the animal is still whole. Laying one\u2019s hands on the animal\u2019s head, the worshiper would feel the animal\u2019s breath, its warmth, it\u2019s aliveness. Establishing this extremely close contact could instill a sense of likeness between the person and the animal. It could be me under the knife; the animal is taking my place. I have been exonerated of my guilt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But in the case of the \u201csh'lamim<\/em>,\u201d the sacrifice of well-being, there is no guilt to exonerate. In its stead, bringing oneself that close to the life force of an animal might have cultivated a healthy, necessary confrontation with one\u2019s <\/span>own<\/span><\/em> life force and mortality. A life-giving encounter, with the potential to fuel a complex sense of joy and vitality; a flash reminder to reinhabit fully one\u2019s own self, with the time allotted on earth. Worship, in this sense, could remove the anesthesia of routine living and reconnect the seeker with a more elevated awareness of life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That I could get myself behind.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":105686,"alt":"","title":"-62a72c373bd75--62a72c373bd76lev3-hands scape 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Our chapter introduces a new sacrifice, the \u201csh'lamim<\/em>.\u201d The rabbis translated \u201csh'lamim<\/em>\u201d as peace offering (\u201csh'lamim<\/em>\u201d from the root \u201cshalom\u201d) because it is divided between all parties. The blood and fats are burned on God\u2019s altar, the chest and hind legs are given to the priests, and the rest of the meat and the skin to the person\/s who brought the sacrifice. A sh'lamim<\/em> results in everyone walking away with something, and that spreads peace. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not that they should walk away: the medieval commentator Rabbi Yosef Bechor Shor adds that the way of peace is that everyone sits together and eats. This simple idea, sitting together to break bread, is one with a long and troubled history in the Tanach. Many generations earlier Jacob didn\u2019t invite his exhausted brother Esau to sit with him and eat, but rather traded some lentil soup for Esau\u2019s birthright. His children were able to sit together and eat, but only after they stripped Joseph of his coat of many colors and threw him into a pit. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The brothers were unable to speak peacefully with Joseph, any conversation would end with a fight or argument, and so finally with him out of the way they sit and peacefully picnic together. I always wondered about this meal. Did they eat within earshot of the pit? Did they hear his screams and cries? His desperate pleas to save him from a painfully slow death of starvation? They imagined they had finally achieved peace, but in time they would be the ones suffering due to famine whereas Joseph had control of all the food in the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sadly, sitting together and eating is complex for too many Jews today as well. Whether it be the kashrut wars between different agencies, Jewish community dinners that don\u2019t serve kosher food, or people who will not eat at the home of friends or relatives because the food isn\u2019t kosher enough, there are too many instances where eating divides rather than unites.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The shelamim serves as an incredible model. Our communities should aspire to lofty goals like shalom (peace) and shleimut (wholeness) but the only way that will allow for more people to sit together and eat, despite profound religious differences, is through personal sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The laws of sacrifices that dominate the early chapters of the book of Leviticus, are among the hardest in the Torah to relate to in the present. It has been almost 2,000 years since the Temple was destroyed and the sacrificial system came to an end. But Jewish thinkers, especially the more mystical among them, strove to understand the inner significance of the sacrifices and the statement they made about the relationship between humanity and God. They were thus able to rescue their spirit even if their physical enactment was no longer possible.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What exactly is it that we give God when we offer a sacrifice? The Jewish mystics, among them R. Shneor Zalman, spoke about two souls each of us has \u2013 the animal soul (nefesh ha-behamit<\/em>) and the Godly soul. On the one hand we are physical beings. We are part of nature. We have physical needs: food, drink, shelter. We are born, we live, we die.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet we are not simply animals. We have within us immortal longings. We can think, speak and communicate. We can, by acts of speaking and listening, reach out to others. We are the one life form known to us in the universe that can ask the question \u201cWhy?\u201d We can formulate ideas and be moved by high ideals. We are not governed by biological drives alone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Physically, we are almost nothing; spiritually, we are brushed by the wings of eternity. We have a Godly soul. The nature of sacrifice, understood psychologically, is thus clear. What we offer God is (not just an animal but) the nefesh ha-behamit<\/em>, the animal soul within us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The noun korban<\/em>, \u201csacrifice\u201d, and the verb le-hakriv<\/em>, \u201cto offer something as a sacrifice\u201d actually mean \u201cthat which is brought close\u201d and \u201cthe act of bringing close\u201d. The key element is not so much giving something up (the usual meaning of sacrifice) but rather bringing something close to God. Le-hakriv <\/em>is to bring the animal element within us to be transformed through the Divine fire that once burned on the altar, and still burns at the heart of prayer if we truly seek closeness to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: <\/span>Why Do We Sacrifice? (Covenant & Conversation, Vayikra 5775<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

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\"And if his offering be a sacrifice of peace-offerings . . .\" (Leviticus 3:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How far away You are, O Lord, how far
\r\n<\/span>Away I've strayed from You, how far away
\r\n<\/span>From paths I knew, for when I disobey
\r\n<\/span>Your word, I find how far away You are.
\r\n<\/span>How far away I've wandered from Your star
\r\n<\/span>Whose light is gone, extinguished on the day
\r\n<\/span>I turned my back on You; no words convey
\r\n<\/span>How lost I feel, remote and insular.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Beyond, beyond, beyond all time and space
\r\n<\/span>You live; how can a laggard leap to where
\r\n<\/span>You dwell? But I have heard that contrite prayer
\r\n<\/span>Constructs a sturdy bridge, a meeting-place
\r\n<\/span>Where God and man may meet, for You declare
\r\n<\/span>How near You are, my distant Lord, how near.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":103932,"alt":"","title":"-625588df59fc4--625588df59fc5gen48-future star dream 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  1. Why <\/span>sh\u2019lamim<\/span><\/em>? Why is this offering called <\/span>sh\u2019lamim<\/span><\/em>, (translated as \u201cwell-being\u201d) from the root <\/span>shalem<\/span><\/em>, \u201cwhole\u201d? One explanation for the name is that with it \u201call are made whole,\u201d everyone involved is satisfied.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. This is how you eat (sacrificial) meat<\/em>. In another 15 chapters (Lev. 17) we\u2019ll learn that anyone who wants to eat meat must bring a sacrifice of well-being. Just slaughter an animal and eat it? We don\u2019t do that.\u00a0 \u201c[I]f anyone of the house of Israel slaughters an ox or sheep or goat in the camp, or does so outside the camp, and does not bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD, before the LORD\u2019s Tabernacle, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man: he has shed blood; that man shall be cut off from among his people. This is in order that the Israelites may bring the sacrifices which they have been making in the open\u2014that they may bring them before the LORD, to the priest, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and offer them as sacrifices of well-being to the LORD\u201d (Lev 17:3-5).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Egalitarianism<\/em>. The offering of well-being is an egalitarian offering. That is, both male and female animals are accepted.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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