Tzav:Esoteric

Most of the parsha deals with rules that, at the time. applied to only 1 in 120,000 of the male population. Most of those rules apply to only one individual: the high Priest.  These are some of the details of the sacrificial rite and the induction into the priesthood. Why are these very esoteric rules made eternally public? 

The open source nature of these instructions assures that they are followed. It leads to the entire people guarding the details, discouraging deviation and drift.  The mishna describes how the lay scholars would instruct the priest, cram the details,  in the days preceding Yom Kippur, so that he would not make a (potentially fatal) error.  The aristocracy of the priesthood is supported by  the meritocracy of the sages, and the law, delivered on Mt Sinai, is available to all. 

The description of this esoteric service lets the lay person, who will never come close to this spectacle, perform these actions in imagination. Whatever these activities mean for the Gd who is served, for the human actor, they are a memory for all but a tiny part of his life. For the last 2000 years, they have existed purely as an idea.

The parsha also contains the prohibition on eating blood and the forbidden fat. Putting these  broadly applied restrictions in the context of the sacrificial rite is a kind of participation that is available to all. The blood and (forbidden) fat are Gd's portions of the carcass.  To eat them is a violation of territory. The herdsman's rights in the animal include the power over life and death, but they do not extend to the blood and fat. 

All of this is quite mysterious ( the same mys as in mystical). These are instructions that do not appeal to  and do not appease logic. But as the machines ( of the G-MAFIA*) become more omniscient, we see the illusory nature of our "feeling" of logic and will. Does the addict have free will?  Sometimes there is no act of liberation greater than obeying.

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