Mystical Insights
By zevi770 · December 26, 2017
Ki Sisah 5728
The most important serve in the holy Temple was the ketories – incense offering.
The entire Temple was about sacrifices of which ketores was the most important – and the point of the ketoires is the personal transformation of darkness to light.
Now the uniqueness of the Ketoires is that it was (unlike the sacrifices) only scent – and scent is great as it has the potent to revive one’s soul/spirit (when people faint, strong smells can revive them) This refers to the fact that even when we may be sleeping (our spirituality is dormant) the essence of ourselves is of-course our soul which is God – and by smelling this fragrance – this knowledge, it will revitalize, reenergize, revive and re-jew-venate.
However to get to this sweet fragrance, we must first have mesirus nefesh – this is why the Jews during Purim were called Yihudim (Jews) which represented that they were willing to even give their lives – for when we go beyond the intellect to our core essence – this is what we reveal.