ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף ויקרא 9:4

Furthermore, seeing that Moses had observed how Aaron had been elevated by G'd to such a high position, Moses told him to communicate soothing messages to the Jewish people. The word לאמור implies a message couched in a very friendly manner. Aaron told the people that G'd would appear to them (verse 4) to indicate that the whole procedure he was instructing them about was for their good, not for his own. This recalls what we wrote in the name of Torat Kohanim at the beginning of פרשת ויקרא, that the fact G'd did not communicate with Moses in the Tabernacle for 38 years was on account of the sin of the spies; when G'd is reported as communicating with Moses out of the Tabernacle this was a compliment to Israel.

ויקרב את המנחה, “he then brought forward the meal offering;” after that he slaughtered the ox and the ram as peace offerings. This sequence also deserves further study as the order is unusual. We would have expected the meal offering to be the least in that sequence. (Compare verse 4)

ונקדש בכבודי, I will manifest Myself to the people of Israel when the Tabernacle will be erected and the celestial fire will descend and consume the meat offerings on the copper altar in the area between the vestibule and the sanctuary. Leviticus 9,4 testifies that this did indeed occur, the verse concluding with “the glory of the Lord became manifest before the whole people,” followed by “fire originated from the presence of the Lord and