09 Aizehu Mikoman Wednesday 20 Sivan 5777/ June 14 2017.

איזהו מקומן Class Nine. The fourth and fifth Mishnaos. העולה וזבחי שלמי ציבור ואשמות. This class entails a very long explanation of the sequence: חטאת and then עולה and then שלמים. It is explained based on the idea that a correction involves the two steps of correcting the wrong. The חטאת focuses on correcting the wrong, the פגם. It is comparable to תשובה תתאה, the idea of פרקליט. The עולה is about renewing the positive relationship. It is the idea of תשובה אילעא and is linked to the Talmudic idea of דורון. The אשם (explains the רמ”ק) is likened to correcting “that sin” (העדר שמירת הברית) which (the Tanya says (from the Zohar and Kabbalah) is corrected by תשובה אילעא only. The reason for this is because it is primarily about the lack of right and good that allows for the evil to happen. Linking אשם to this means that whatever sins are atoned by an אשם are corrected not the actual פגם or sin; but its root cause is one’s lack of intense involvement with G-dliness. Thus, after the עולה וחטאת comes the אשם which actually attempts to reverse the (past) deficiencies in one’s relationship with Hashem. Thus the sequence: עולה, חטאת, אשם. We explain each אשם and how we understand the notion of כפרה on the תשובה עילאה level, rather than on the תשובה תתאה level. חטאת- מלכות עולה- חסד אשם- תפארת. וד”ל.