"Ke-ilu hikravnu": Feelings to Summon when You Bring (or Say) the Korban Tamid - Part I

May it be Your will, ...
Numbers 28:1-8
(1) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: (2) Command the Israelite people and say to them: Be punctilious in presenting to Me at stated times the offerings of food due Me, as offerings by fire of pleasing odor to Me. (3) Say to them: These are the offerings by fire that you are to present to the LORD: As a regular burnt offering every day, two yearling lambs without blemish. (4) You shall offer one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. (5) And as a meal offering, there shall be a tenth of an ephah of choice flour with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil mixed in— (6) the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai—an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD. (7) The libation with it shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb, to be poured in the sacred precinct as an offering of fermented drink to the LORD. (8) The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, preparing the same meal offering and libation as in the morning—an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD.
May it be Your will, LORD our God and God of our ancestors, that this recitation be considered accepted and favored before You as if we had offered the daily sacrifice at its appointed time and place, according to its laws.

[Gloss: And we say the section of the daily offering. And there are those who say the order of the woodpile (Yoma 33a) and "Master of the World, You commanded us", etc. And if it is not possible to say with the congregation, one can say it in one's house and come back to read the section of the daily offering on one's own with the congregation [i.e. in its presence]. And the second time, one should intend it like reading in the Torah (Tur)] On Shabbat we say the verses of the additional offering of Shabbat along with the section of the daily offering ...

(1) On three occasions during the year, on fast days, on ma’amadot, and on Yom Kippur the priests lift up their hands to bless [the people] four times during the day--at Shaharit, at Mussaf, at Minhah and at Neilah.

(2) What are the ma’amadot? Since it is said, “Command the children of Israel and say to them: My offering, My food” (Numbers 28:2). Now how can a man’s offering be offered and he is not present? [Therefore] the former prophets instituted twenty-four mishmarot (guards). For each mishmar there was a ma’amad [at the Temple] in Jerusalem consisting of priests, Levites and Israelites. When the time came for the mishmar to go up [to Jerusalem] the priests and Levites went up to Jerusalem and the Israelites of that mishmar assembled in their cities and read the story of creation.

"And the Israelites of that priestly watch assembled in their towns and read the act of Creation." From where is this matter derived? Rabbi Ya’akov bar Aḥa said that Rav Asi said: Were it not for the non-priestly watches heaven and earth would not continue to exist, as it is stated: “And he said: Lord God, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?” (Genesis 15:8). Abraham said: Master of the Universe, perhaps the Jews will sin before You. Will You treat them as You did the generation of the flood and the generation of the dispersion? God said to him: No. Abraham said before God: Master of the Universe, tell me, with what shall I inherit it? God said to Abraham: “Take for Me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old goat, ...” (Genesis 15:9). Abraham said before God: Master of the Universe, this works out well when the Temple is standing, but when the Temple is not standing, what will become of them? God said to him: I have already enacted for them the order of offerings. When they read them before Me, I will ascribe them credit as though they had sacrificed them before Me and I will pardon them for all their transgressions.

(1) A psalm of Asaph. God is truly good to Israel, to those whose heart is pure. (2) As for me, my feet had almost strayed, my steps were nearly led off course, (3) for I envied the wanton; I saw the wicked at ease. (4) Death has no pangs for them; their body is healthy. (5) They have no part in the travail of men; they are not afflicted like the rest of mankind. (6) So pride adorns their necks, lawlessness enwraps them as a mantle. (7) Fat shuts out their eyes; their fancies are extravagant. (8) They scoff and plan evil; from their eminence they plan wrongdoing. (9) They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues range over the earth. (10) So they pound His people again and again, until they are drained of their very last tear. (11) Then they say, “How could God know? Is there knowledge with the Most High?” (12) Such are the wicked; ever tranquil, they amass wealth. (13) It was for nothing that I kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence, (14) seeing that I have been constantly afflicted, that each morning brings new punishments. (15) Had I decided to say these things, I should have been false to the circle of Your disciples. (16) So I applied myself to understand this, but it seemed a hopeless task (17) till I entered God’s sanctuary and reflected on their fate. (18) You surround them with flattery; You make them fall through blandishments. (19) How suddenly are they ruined, wholly swept away by terrors. (20) When You are aroused You despise their image, as one does a dream after waking, O Lord. (21) My mind was stripped of its reason, my feelings were numbed. (22) I was a dolt, without knowledge; I was brutish toward You. (23) Yet I was always with You, You held my right hand; (24) You guided me by Your counsel and led me toward honor. (25) Whom else have I in heaven? And having You, I want no one on earth. (26) My body and mind fail; but God is the stay of my mind, my portion forever. (27) Those who keep far from You perish; You annihilate all who are untrue to You. (28) As for me, nearness to God is good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may recount all Your works.

R' Yose says: wherever "korban" is mentioned, it's said with [God's name containing] Yod and Heh, so as not to provide an opening to heretics to dominate.

(2) He said: The LORD came from Sinai; He shone upon them from Seir; He appeared from Mount Paran, And approached from Ribeboth-kodesh, Lightning flashing at them from His right.

... Resh Lakish said,"The Torah was given to Moshe, its skin of white fire and written with black fire, and sealed in fire, and wrapped with fire. ...

(9) At the scent of water it will bud And produce branches like a sapling.

(17) Discipline your son and he will give you peace; He will gratify you with dainties.

The sacrifice is slaughtered for the sake of six things:For the sake of the sacrifice, For the sake of the sacrificer, For the sake of the [Divine] Name, For the sake of fire-offerings, For the sake of fragrance, For the sake of pleasing; ...

(2) Let the Israelite people offer the passover sacrifice at its set time:

GEMARA: The Sages taught: This law was forgotten by the sons of Beteira, The fourteenth of Nisan once occurred on Shabbat, and they forgot and did not know whether the Paschal lamb overrides Shabbat or not. They said: Is there any person who knows whether the Paschal lamb overrides Shabbat or not? They said to them: There is a certain man in Jerusalem who came up from Babylonia, and Hillel the Babylonian is his name. At one point, he served the two most eminent scholars of the generation, Shemaya and Avtalyon, and he certainly knows whether the Paschal lamb overrides Shabbat or not. They sent messengers and called for him. They said to him: Do you know whether the Paschal lamb overrides Shabbat or not? He said to them: Have we but one Paschal lamb during the year that overrides Shabbat? Do we not have many more than two hundred Paschal lambs, i.e., sacrifices, during the year that override Shabbat? They said to him: From where do you know this? He said to them: “Its appointed time” is stated with regard to the Paschal lamb and “its appointed time” is also stated with regard to the daily offering. Just as the expression “its appointed time,” which is stated with regard to the daily offering, indicates that it overrides Shabbat, so too “its appointed time,” which is stated with regard to the Paschal lamb, indicates that it overrides Shabbat.

We have found proofs that the daily offering and the Paschal lamb override Shabbat. From where do we derive that they also override ritual impurity? They say: Just as the law governing the Paschal lamb is derived from the law governing the daily offering in regard to Shabbat, so too the law concerning the daily offering is derived from the law concerning the Paschal lamb in regard to ritual impurity; And with regard to the Paschal lamb itself, from where do we derive that if most of the nation is ritually impure, the sacrifice is offered anyway? Rabbi Yoḥanan said: For the verse states: “... Any man who shall be impure by reason of a corpse." An individual is deferred to the second Pesaḥ, but the community or the majority thereof is not deferred to the second Pesaḥ; rather, they observe the first Pesaḥ in a state of ritual impurity.