Due to today being Purim there was no live Rabbi Frand shiur on the Parsha. However 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/119886, but 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 Parshas Tzav is usually Shabbos HaGadol but due to being a leap year it is not this year. R' Frand then spoke about the Karban Todah which is mentioned here, whereas all the other Karbanos are in Parshas Vayikra. In fact, Parshas Tzav focuses on the instruction to the Kohanim on how to the avodah. So why is this here as opposed to in Parshas Vayikra and why is it mentioned in the midst of the discussions of the instructions to the Kohanim.
R' Frand quoted Rashi who explains that a Karban Torah is brought when a miracle occurs for a person, either release from jail, or being healed or traversing an ocean or a desert. This is Birkas HaGomel that is made now instead of a Karban Torah.
R' Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld wonders why Rashi says that the Karban is brought for a miracle. The ten plagues is a miracle, the splitting of the sea was a miracle. But is crossing the ocean a miracle? He answers, yes - that we successfully traverse the ocean is a miracle - its one of everyday miracles as we say in Modim (Al Nisecha SheB'Chol Yom Imanu). When a person is sick and becomes well because Hashem has healed him, its a miracle.
R' Frand said that we saw through COVID how tenuous our health was. We see that a person can resume daily activities 4 weeks after bypass surgery, but bypass means that his heart was not pumping normally for a period of time. Now he is walking around, but its not "modern medicine" its a miracle from heavens. We need to keep this in mind, its not just medicine.
R' Frand quoted a Gemara in Berachos 7 that states that no one said thanks to Hashem until Leah had Yehuda. Everyone asks, could it be that no one said thanks? Noach brought a Korban, the Avos brought Karbanos. The answer is that the others brought sacrifices for miracles. Leah said thank you for the "every day" act of having a baby.
R' Frand told a story of a man who got married and a year later had a baby girl. He came to R' Shach and asked if he should make a Kiddush. R' Shach said to him - let me ask you a question - if you could not have a baby for eight years and after all that time you finally had one, would you ask if you should make a Kiddush? Hashem spared you the Agmas Nefesh, but why not make the Kiddush?
R' Frand said that this is what Rashi means - you had a successful trip with some danger and you made it through - its an everyday miracle, but a miracle nonetheless.
R' Yosef Chaim states - this is the reason why the Karban Todah is in Tzav - the Kohanim need it here. The Kohanim worked in the Beis HaMikdash where 10 miracles occur every day. If the same things happen every day you look past it. He gave an analogy to seeing Sheimos. If you see it on the floor you immediately pick it up. But if you worked in a printing house where they were printing seforim and you saw it on the floor you might not think it out of the ordinary.
This is why the Kohanim who were so used to seeing miracles, they needed to be reminded that surviving an operation or a trip, these are all miracles. They may not change the laws of nature, but they are miracles nonetheless.
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