13a. Mishnayos Perek Aizehu Mikoman, Yeshiva Achei Temimim (5782/ 2022), Class Thirteen, Mishna 5 Zivchei Shalmei Tzibbur VaAshamos (1). A collective Shlamim was brought along with (and secondary to) the שתי הלחם (the two loaves of Chametz offered on Shavuos) to allow using חדש (new produce for Korbanos). This Korban therefore raised up all foodstuff that Yidden would eat personally (see Tanya Chapter 34). As such it was corrective. All אשמות are similarly corrective; some of them are actually for sin done with intent (!!!), some for sin done without (full) intent and one ofr ending a status of Tuma’ah (מחוסר כיפורים). What all these Korbanos have in common however, is that they are corrective (only) indirectly: they don’t deal with the flaw (or lack) directly (as the Chatos does) rather they raise one up (similar to a Korban Olah) to reconnect to Him which automatically heals whatever deficiencies there might be. This is why the אשם is male: it isn’t correcting the sin, it correcting the distance from God that allowed for the sin. These Korbanos were eaten (which shows on a wholeness) but not by the people (who sinned) only by the Kohanim, because of it’s (indirect) connection to inexactitude.
