[Avodah] having a melech: lechatchila or bideved???

[david guttmann]

RMB quoted the Narboni explaining Rambam's reason for Korbanot ending with -
 >As a concession to human nature, Hashem specified an expression of this
will to give something physical. It gives us a way to be lead away from
concepts of deity that actually need or want appeasement gifts.

This 2nd shelav isn't about living with the limitation -- it's about
overcoming it. As opposed to the ideal mitzvah, which would exist to expose
man to the truth regardless of the errors that come naturally to humans.<



I would like to add that the extreme limit setting that we find in Korbanot
where even a Machshavah passels the Korban is part and parcel of the system.
It tells us that even when we find it necessary to do something physical, we
cannot let our emotions take over and must do it within very narrow
constraints otherwise it becomes the Chet of Nadav and Avihu. However once
this limitation is imposed it becomes a tzivui, a Mitzvat Hamelech, and
takes on the form of a paradigm for all Mitzvot as Avodat Hashem. That
explains our praying for the return of Avodah, as Yemot Hamashiach will
allow us to be totally immersed in HKBH which is the Tachlit.

If you want to transfer this thinking to  the Mitzvah of Melech you will
explain the idea of Melech Hamashiach. If Malchut is only a bedieved how
else do you explain the Bracha Et Tzemach we say three times daily during
the weekdays?

 

David Guttmann
 
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