- The 2 elements of תורה ועבודה seem to be conflated here in ויקרא: The aspects that seem on the surface to relate to the nature of עבודה (the levels of intimacy, invitation, בית אמי וחדר הורתי) – are now not seen as necessarily relegated to the space of the השראת השכינה and the interrelationship that is fundamental to עבודה vs עבודה זרה interrelatedness that we spoke about, but rather are part of the nature of תורה itself, and therefore ויקרא becomes the essence of תורה, and in רמב"ם the essence of הר סיני is to be מודיע the difference of דרך עבודתו and that which is wrong with עבודה זרה!
We recognize that the אל"ף of ויקרא, the difference between the ויקר at both the beginning and end of the ספר and the קריאה between בלעם ומשה is exactly this idea! Recognizing as ישעיהו does that someone can insert the most amazing investment into a piece of wood or metal, turning it into the most astounding creation whether artistic scientific etc – and the rest of it remains a piece of material to be burnt or sat on– is a סתירה only to the point that someone turns to it and believes they can get out more than they put in when they invest in that fashion הצלני because I now have my beautiful music save me with my beautiful music beautiful discovery beautiful statue etc, there is nothing to save – a one directional input can be at most a memory cannot get you out of what you are
The only response therefore to תורה is that אל"ף is part of קריאה not only part of your ownאלוף (*the reason that the world was not built with the אל"ף first) the difference between משה ובלעם is the difference between ויקחו להם מכל אשר בחרו and invitation to your Lover לבית אמי וחדר הורתי it is a difference between a world created within and therefore is without any hope of escape and a world that is response to מי כמוני, of the ויקרא of הקב"ה עם זו יצרתי תהלתי ספרו the way in which throughout the years even today there has always been בשביל ישראל שנקרא ראשית the awaiting that הקב"ה does, the constant invitation that Creation presents us with to now go beyond, the recognition that the חביבות בשביל מעשה בראשית from its earliest moments to its actual achievement of ברית etc – is the חביבות that אדם has to have for his animal and for everything that is given to him as the submatrix of his life. Without that, to view עבודה as primitive one ends up viewing as meaningful only the things one has brought to Reality which is really just the tiniest addition imaginable not even measurable in terms of the totality of מעשה בראשית – the tiniest addition imaginable, and mistaking the אל"ף זעירא for being the "minor" genetic distinction between human and animal or mistaking the minor additional חכמה your insight provided Creation e=mc2 – which it had within it from the first moment – and by thinking that by scribbling it on a blackboard you have changed reality. That instead of being a response to invitation is essentially a free-fall descent into hell, for that type of person lives like בלעם did committed only to רגע and destroying חנוכת המזבח which itself is חיים ברצונו!, -- instead of כי רגע באפו חיים ברצונ.

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