Musar untuk Imamat 5:1

מוצא שפתיך תשמור ועשית כאשר נדרת לה' אלוקיך . This verse contains an allusion to the oath of loyalty to the Torah each soul is made to swear by the angel who taught it that same Torah while still in the mother's womb (Niddah 30b). The phrasing "keep your promise," presupposes that everyone has taken such a vow.

Man was thus forewarned of the consequences of improper conduct even before he was born. This will help him to refrain from sinning. Whenever he remembers this he will hasten to make amends. This is the meaning of the words או הודע אליו חטאתו אשר חטא in 4,28. Perhaps this is also the reason the Torah continues in the paragraph following with the words: ונפש כי תחטא ושמעה קול האלה, "When a person sins and hears the voice of the oath, etc." The "oath" in question may allude to the one he himself swore before he was born as described above by Rabbi Simlai. This may also be what David alluded to in Psalms 24,4 when he described someone who has never sworn a vain oath as a person fit to ascend the Mountain of G–d. [otherwise we could ask why such a person had to swear an oath altogether, seeing our sages frown on any oath. Ed.] The remainder of 5,1, i.e. והוא עד או ראה או ידע may also be understood as applying to an experience every person had prior to his birth when he was sworn to remain free of sin. The verse concludes with the statement ונשא עונו, that a person who ignores what he was taught as an embryo will bear his guilt.

It is stated in Parashas Vayikra, “And the soul that sins, having heard the voice of an adjuration, etc.” (5:1). This verse is discussed in the Zohar (Parashas Vayikra 13a). The Zohar says that it is speaking of the soul before it descends into an earthly body. While it is still in Heaven it is given a tour of eighteen hundred worlds to witness the honor and glory of those who toiled in Torah in this world for pure motives, who conducted all their affairs with pure motives and who behaved with humility. There they sit in honor, their faces shining with the radiance of the firmament, while above their heads are canopies made of precious stones.