Menachot 80

Today's stuff is Masechis Menachos' stuff, pay, we learn a lachha from our biaba,

namal alif, if a person committed to bring a Korban toda, and he said,

a Thanksgiving offering, zood toda, the zoolachma, this is going to be for my toda,

the animal offering part of the Korban, and this is going to be in my loaves.

A lachha is that if the loaves are lost, he brings more loaves.

But if the offering was lost, aino mevi toda, he doesn't bring a replacement toda,

a replacement Thanksgiving offering. The reason is, lechem biglal toda,

the loaves are brought because of the offering, but the toda is not brought because of the loaves.

In other words, the essence of the Korban toda is the offering itself.

And the ramen codifies us in hilchos, psule hamuk deshin, perkid pays,

has alachha yud alaf. We also learned, and yesterday's stuff, based on the words

of Yakuiv Korbano al zevach, the lechem, the loaves are holy, are sanctified

through the slaughtering of the toda, and not the other way around.

And on Memvav, we learned that the toda could even be offered without any bread at all.

Then any loaves at all. The chosen of the blin.

The great rebe of chosa brings from the Nicholsburg Rebe,

and the chosa's safer zychron sauce in parches mitzara.

A beautiful remeze, a beautiful deeper layer in the words of a rabbi's.

And today's stuff, lechem biglal toda, the bread comes because of the toda.

The lechem says the chosa, says the Nicholsburger, meaning the eating, the lechem,

the ochar, the eating has to be because of the toda.

In other words, I should be strengthened from my eating, from my eating experience.

And through that, I can gain the ability to thank Hashem and Daven't Hashem.

Not toda biglal lechem. We don't Daven or think Hashem just in order to eat.

We have to keep the order and the priority straight.

The morale has an amazing insight in the Sivasolam, the Sivha-Avoda,

Peric Baze, that when a person daven't Hashem and comes before Hashem

with his or her needs, the kavana should not be that Hashem

should give us wealth and honor in the pleasures of the world.

The things we get for our physical pleasure.

But that Hashem should give us all our physical needs in order to serve him.

And if a person asks Hashem, Zachreinulachai, please Hashem,

give me life, remember me for life.

It's to be directed to enable us, to learn Martaura and to perform

Mitzos. And if one directs themselves and their requests,

their buck a shot, just serve my own physical pleasure.

I just want to feel good. I just want to have money with no other purpose,

with no other drive or something more elevated.

This is the Ma'aral, it's a toiva. It's a great mistake.

In fact, there's a halacha that's brought in Shulchanar or a haim,

Rachel Manalif, Sifalif, to this effect in the mission of Bura,

Sif Katin here, over their quotes, the Khai Adam, who says,

he saw unsheysen, elevated people, pious, holy people,

who would say before they would put food in their mouths,

he didn't eat a rutsa, la khauh, will he stop?

Hereby, I intend to eat and to drink today,

Shayyab Barri, the Khazakh, la Vodas Hashem, he's brought,

so that I'll be strong, I'll be healthy,

in order to serve Hashem.

Of Kijron, who gave the sheer, also quoted from Professor Nakhom Rakhover,

a beautiful story from a tainist's seepour.

It was on a fast day, certain year, students came over to the Rav Hanazir,

of Dhabi Dakoin, the great righteous Rav from your Shaline.

How are you, they would say, they said to him,

so he said to them, until you ask me how I feel,

how I feel on a fast day, first you should ask me how I feel on a day that I'm eating.

In other words, Yiddishkite is always about prioritizing,

what should be at the center, and what comes,

and what comes secondary has to be seen as just that, a secondary.

Maybe Zohre to live with this mentality and this approach,

each and every day of our lives.