Although R' Frand did not deliver his live shiur this evening, R' Frand did post a pre-recorded Parsha vort on OU Torah which I have summarized here. This week's vort can be found at https://outorah.org/p/221769 and I have attempted to reproduce the vort to the best of my ability in this post. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to the maggid shiur.
R' Frand noted that Sefer Vayikra is called Toras Kohanim because so much of it deals with the Karbanos. R' Frand observed that the parsha begins with a discussion of the Karbanos, but in the 5th Perek there is an elaboration on one who sins and his requirement to admit his son and then bring a Karban Asham.
The Torah's description of the Asham is multi leveled as in Vayikra 5:6 there is an option to bring a female sheep or lamb. But if he could not afford an animal, the Torah states in 5:7 the person can bring two birds - one as a Chatas and one as an Olah.
But why does he bring a different set of Karbanos if he cannot afford he animal? The Ibn Ezra explains that the person must have committed a second sin. The man thinks to himself - Hashem, its not fair that I can't afford a lamb. But having ill thoughts of Hashem is a separate sin which requires him to bring an Olah to atone for those thoughts.
But the Torah has a third level which is mentioned in Vayikra 5:11 which states that he brings a Chatas as a flour offering without oil. But this person does not bring an Olah - just the flour offering.
The question can be asked - if the person who brings the bird offering is required to bring an Olah because of his thoughts, then certainly the man who brings the flour offering should bring as well?
R' Frand quoted the Chiddah who explains that when a man is in pain, we don't hold his words against him. So the man who is in the intermediate level has to bring the Olah, but for the man who is severely indigent and pained about his position, Hashem says - I won't hold his words against him. Thus the man only brings the flour offering.
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