Еврейская мысль к Бамидбар 28:4

Rabbi Berechya in the name of Rabbi Ezra, explains the first verse in the book of Leviticus in Vayikrah Rabbah 7 by means of a parable. "Someone amongst you who wishes to offer a sacrifice etc." A king had two pastry cooks. The first one prepared a pastry for him which the king ate and enjoyed. The second one prepared a pastry for him also, and the king also ate that pastry and enjoyed it. It was impossible to tell which pastry the king had enjoyed more until the king asked the second pastry cook to prepare another pastry for him like the first one he had prepared for the king. We observe that Noach had offered a sacrifice to G'd which G'd had enjoyed. (Genesis 8,20-21 "He savoured the sweet odour") Israel too was asked to offer sacrifices on its holy days. (Numbers 28,4, "you shall observe to do, each day at its appointed time") Only when Moses commanded the Jewish people (Leviticus 6,2) "this is the instruction concerning the total offering"), did we find out that G'd preferred our offerings, as stated by the prophet Maleachi. (Maleachi 3,4, "and the gift offering of Yehudah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to G'd as in the days of old, in former times") "The days of old," refers to the time of Moses, and the "former times," refers to the years of Solomon. An alternative interpretation is that "the days of old," refers to Noach's offering, as Isaiah says in Isaiah 54,4, "this is like the waters of Noach for Me." The "former times" would then refer to the time of Abel, when idolatry was as yet unknown.

Midrash Tanchuma on our Parshah writes that Moses had conceptual difficulties with three of G-d’s instructions. When G-d instructed that the half shekel was to be a kopher nefesh a soul's ransom, Moses queried "how can anyone ransom his soul by means of a financial donation?" G-d replied that He did not mean for the Jews to donate according to HIS yardsticks and ability, but according to their own yardsticks and ability. When G-d instructed that the Jews build a sanctuary for HIM, Moses queried how G-d who cannot be contained by the whole universe, could possibly be contained by such a miniscule structure as the tabernacle? Again G-d replied that contrary to what Moses thought, the Jewish people were asked to do only things which were in keeping with their own ability, i.e. twenty beams in the South, twenty in the North, etc. When G-d commanded the offering of daily sacrifices, described by G-d as "My bread," Moses wondered how there could possibly be sufficient livestock to satisfy G-d’s needs. G-d answered that the dimensions of sacrifice were commensurate with Israel's ability, not G-d’s capacity. Hence one sheep in the morning, one in the evening. This is the meaning of Job 37,23, "Though we cannot obtain a true understanding of the dimensions of G-d, He has proven through justice and righteousness that He does not oppress."