Комментарий к Бамидбар 29:2

V. 2. ועשיתם וגו׳, — nicht והקרבתם, — tretet ihr noch nicht Gott nahe, wagt ihr euch noch nicht in die Gottesnähe mit dem idealen Ausdruck eurer Bestimmung, noch weniger mit dem שני פרים-Ausdruck der in jedem Einzelleben von jedem einzelnen Gott dienend verwirklichten Lösung dieser Bestimmung: ועשיתם, ihr vollzieht nur objektiv das euch vom Gesetzesheiligtum stets entgegenzuhaltende Ideal eurer Bestimmung, und zwar nur פר אחד, die Nation zunächst nur in ihrer Gesamtheit als wirksamer Arbeiter im Dienste Gottes begriffen, von welcher Gesamtbestimmung aus sich erst unterm Ruf des Schofars jeder einzelne wieder in den Dienst Gottes zurück zu finden hat. Und darum wird auch

כבשים בני שנה שבעה תמימים, “seven unblemished male sheep one year old.” If you were to ask how this can be squared with the opinion of the scholar that on New Year the animals attain their “birthday,” [as opposed to the anniversary of their date of birth. Ed.] so that they are no longer one year old but are already in their second year, (Talmud tractate Niddah folio 47) and we need a male sheep exactly one year old? (Tractate Parah chapter 1 Mishnah 3)? We would have to answer that according to that scholar the eighth day of life of these sheep occurs on New Year’s so that they just began to qualify as potential offerings and had not yet entered their second year. They could not have been called two years old as the count of years did not begin until they were old enough to qualify as potential sacrifices. (From the eighth day of their lives) Therefore, on the day when they were offered as sacrifices they had not entered their second year of “life.” The Torah had hinted at such a scenario when it wrote (Leviticus 22,27) “and from the eighth day onwards it is fit as a potential offering acceptable by G-d with goodwill.”

You shall bring [ועשיתם] a burnt-offering. Why was this different than all the other sin-offerings in which it was written “ והקרבתם— and you shall offer”? The answer is because Rosh HaShanah is the Day of Judgment, and when the people of Israel enter judgment they are made [נעשים] like a new creation. And this is what the liturgical poet wrote: He Who created them as a new creation.

That is that He commanded to offer an additional sacrifice on the first day of Tishrei. And that is the additional sacrifice of Rosh Hashanah. And that is His, may He be exalted, saying, "In the seventh month, on the first day [...] You shall offer a burnt-offering as a pleasing odor to the Lord" (Numbers 29:1-2). (See Parashat Pinchas; Mishneh Torah, Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings 9.)