Parshat Vayikra
Diamonds and Settings:
Torah Portions Through The Eyes of Our Scholars
Volume 6

The Torah portion of Vayikra discusses the many laws of the korbonos (animal sacrifices). The question is raised: What is the reason that animal sacrifices exist? What is there purpose and how are sacrifices meant to reflect the greatness and holiness of G-d.? Rabbi Wein uses the commentary, Emes L’ Yaakov, written by Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, to answer to these questions drawing on the differing opinions of the Rambam and the Ramban.