A vort from the Rebbe on this week's parsha, Parshas Pinchas. In Parshas Pinchas, we learn about the special korbanot that they had to bring in special times. But it starts off, when it talks about the korbanot, that parsha, that section in the parsha starts off with the קרבן תמיד. That every day you had to bring a קרבן תמיד twice a day. And the קרבן תמיד was a קרבן עולה. קרבן תמיד is that they were מקריב, they sacrificed a sheep twice a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and it was a קרבן עולה. The difference between a קרבן עולה and other korbanot: other korbanot, there is part that goes on the מזבח, on the altar, basically that's for Hashem, and part of it is eaten by the kohanim, some are even eaten by the owner of the korban, etc., etc. קרבן עולה goes completely on the מזבח. Every part of the korban is burnt on the מזבח. And this is the korban that they had to bring every day. And the pasuk, when it refers to the קרבן תמיד, says in this week's פרשה, עולת תמיד, it's a קרבן עולה, as I said, which is burnt completely, תמיד, which is constant, which means every single day of the year, העשויה בהר סיני, which was done, made in mountain of Sinai, Har Sinai. What does that mean? It means that the קרבן תמיד that they brought every day was similar to the קרבן תמיד that was brought by Har Sinai. And Rashi has two peshtim, but the first pshat of Rashi is, which obviously is the main pshat because that's the first, that it means כאותם שנעשו בימי המילואים, that the קרבן תמיד that you bring every day is similar to the קרבן תמיד that was brought in the days of the מילואים. The days of the מילואים were the days of the inauguration of the משכן. Before the Mishkan was put up permanently, till the next time they traveled, but put up to stay, they brought, put up the Mishkan seven days before. Every day they put it up and put it and took it apart again for seven days. And then was the eighth day. And they are called ימי המילואים. These seven days are called days of inauguration, then the eighth day of inauguration was the special celebration, etc., etc. So we're saying here, the pasuk is telling us, that the קרבן תמיד that you brought always is similar to the קרבן תמיד that you brought in the days of the מילואים. The obvious question is, why connect it to the days of the מילואים? What's so special about the days of מילואים that we're telling you that the קרבן תמיד that you always brought is similar to the קרבן תמיד of the days of the מילואים, of the inauguration? What was special then in the קרבן תמיד that we have to say that every קרבן תמיד from all the years is similar to the קרבן תמיד of the ימי המילואים?

And the Rebbe explains it like this: one of the things that happened special in the days of the מילואים is that Moshe Rabbeinu himself was the one that was מקריב the korbanot. All the other times, the kohanim were מקריב, they sacrificed the korbanot. During the days of the מילואים, Moshe Rabbeinu was the one that was מקריב the korbanot. That's so special on the korbanot of the days of the מילואים. And this is what the Rebbe says means ברוחניות. It's not a simple peshat. The simple peshat, it needs other peshatim. But ברוחניות, in avodat Hashem, how do we apply this in avodat Hashem, this means like this: the inyan of the קרבן תמיד represents the idea that every Yid is expected and has the ability to give himself over completely to Hashem. A korban means you're giving yourself over to Hashem. The word korban comes from the word קירוב, you get closer to Hashem. So the korbanot represent that you are giving yourself over to Hashem. But other korbanot represent not that you're giving yourself over completely, because part of it was not put on the mizbeach, part of it was eaten. קרבן עולה represents that you give yourself over completely to Hashem. And when you bring the קרבן עולה, it represents this idea that a yid is supposed to give himself over completely to Hashem. The question is, how is it possible? We need special koach for this. It's not easy to give yourself over completely to Hashem. Other korbanot which represent partially giving over to Hashem, that's possible, that's easier. But to give yourself over like a קרבן עולה, that's much harder. So we need a special koach. And that's what the pasuk says: the קרבן תמיד, the קרבן עולת תמיד, which represent the giving yourself over completely to Hashem constantly, that's every time you do that, which means every time a yid does that avodah, he has the koach for it because it's similar to the קרבן תמיד, עולת תמיד that was done by ימי המילואים, which was done through Moshe Rabbeinu. In other words, Moshe Rabbeinu gives the koach to yidden that they should be able to accomplish this avodah. This is what this means. So this is why the pasuk compares the קרבן עולת תמיד to the korbanot, the קרבן תמיד that was brought in the ימי המילואים, to tell you that just like over there Moshe Rabbeinu brought it, when he brought it, that gave the koach for the קרבן תמיד throughout all the days, all the generations. that every yid has the ability, if he only wants and he works on it, to give himself over completely to Hashem, and whatever he does should only be L'shem Shamayim, only for the sake of Hashem.