Kabbalah Library

May

“If any man of you brings an offering … from the beast.” The matter of offering is specifically from the beast, as in “he pretends to be as a beast and not as humans.” This is so because all the Korbanot [offerings/sacrifices], meaning the Hitkarvut [nearing] the Creator, are from the beast. Conversely, one who wants to offer from the quality of man commits a transgression, as one who gives his son to Molech, which is an offering to idol-worship.

Israelis offer only from the beast, and not from man (and he also said “And I will remove the stony heart from within you.” Even [stone] comes from the word Avin [I will understand], meaning that he wants knowledge. As long as this works in his organs, he is deficient. Rather, it must be from the quality of a beast).

Man should not pray for any spreading of knowledge into himself. Rather, he must work in the current state, even if it is the smallest Katnut [smallness/infancy] in reality.

He only needs to see that it is permanent, without having anything that might disqualify the slaughter (a puncture in the gullet, even the slightest, and much less a delay, disqualifies the slaughtering. Slaughtering means that in a wise disciple, signs of slaughter are seen by themselves). One should pray for the expansion of the knowledge only for the sake of the collective.