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There are 4 basic categories of animals that are used in Sacrifices.
Cows
Goats
Sheep
Birds
Goats were used for sacrifices anytime that there is a "Kaparah" or "atonement" related to the sacrifice. I.e. if the purpose of the sacrifice is to correct some wrong, then a goat is used.
Sheep are used for any sacrifices where the focus is on either the ...
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Bamidbar 15:14 says that a convert must bring an offering "throughout your generations". Sifre Zuta says that the inclusion of this phrase teaches that converts are accepted at any time. Haamek Davar states that the convert or their descendant must bring an offering when the Temple is rebuilt.
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According to R' Samson Raphael Hirsch, in various places in his commentary on the Torah, the ox, typically used for plowing fields, represents humans' power to do effect change in the world. Thus, any time we sacrifice an ox on God's altar, we're dedicating that power within ourselves to His service.
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The Mishna (Zevachim 3:1) states:
כל הפסולין ששחטו שחיטתן כשרה שהשחיטה כשרה בזרים בנשים ובעבדים ובטמאים אפילו בקדשי קדשים
Anyone who is invalid for Temple service who slaughtered [a sacrifice], the slaughter is valid, for slaughtering [sacrifices] is valid even for non-priests, women, slaves and even impure people, even for the holiest of sacrifices.
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Of the various animal sacrifices, a cow (or more often, a bull) was considered the most expensive and often most choice. (Mind you, a pauper who can afford nothing but grain who brings it with meaning is valued over the mogul who thinks he can pay off G-d with a nice bull.)
Sforno discusses it being of the most utility to us, and also that its gestation ...
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This question is related to another and I believe the answers are the same. The sugya is in Krisus 8b-9a. The resolution there is essentially that the korban isn't m'akev (which we learn from a gzeiras hakasuv).
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The Maskil LeDavid on Rashi in Vayikra 10:17 asks the same question. He says that we must say that all the sin offerings were coming to atone for something, that's the nature of a sin offering. Rashi (Vayikra 10:16) tells us that 3 sin offerings were brought that day, and the Maskil LeDavid explains what they were for:
“[Take] a he-goat [as a ...
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You ask “But surely we can get some meaning from this. That's my hope here - a source or someone's original interpretation.”
Here is an original interpretation without claims to authenticity.
Two modes of dealing with the yetzer hora:
(1) In this existence we are given the yetzer hora and we are to use it to serve HaShem. Devorim 5, 6; Rashi. ““With all ...
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Since (approximately) the destruction of the second temple sacrifices have ceased. Even prior to that, there was no sine qua non nature to animal blood as it relates to atonement. Biblically, only a small selection of sins could be atoned for via sacrifice, and even those could be removed through other means. We take our cue from Hosea 14:3 (some have it as ...
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יש בה ידיעה בתחלה ואין בה ידיעה בסוף שעיר הנעשה בפנים ויום הכפורים תולה עד שיודע לו ויביא בעולה ויורד אין בה ידיעה בתחלה אבל יש בה ידיעה בסוף שעיר הנעשה בחוץ ויום הכפורים מכפר ... ר' מאיר אומר כל השעירין כפרתן שוה על טומאת מקדש וקדשיו ... ר"ש אומר ... של יום הכפורים מכפר על שאין בה ידיעה בתחלה אבל יש בה ידיעה בסוף ... ר"ש בן יהודה אומר ... של יום הכפורים ...
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@Meir Zirkind already pointed out a link to a website (that I had also found in searching) that discusses this inyun at length. I will write here in short what is brought there (at least the sources with the most weight without going into additional savaras and sources that are brought there.)
See Maharal in Gavuros HaShem that says the Pesach was eaten ...
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Although the question originally conflated a zavah with woman who is niddah, this obligation applies to a woman who is experiencing discharge beyond her regular menstrual cycle. Regarding the offering brought by a Zav, the male counterpart of a Zavah, the Ibn Ezra on Lev. 15:15 explains that an offering is brought because such discharges are divine ...
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I found something that might be helpful in your search. The Meam Loez discusses why the chazeh v'shok are waved (Vayikra 7:30):
The Hebrew word for chest is chazeh, which also has the connotation of seeing. We thus find, "His eyes shall see (ye-chezu), his eyelids shall discern the children of man" (Psalms 11:4). This teaches that God's eyes and eyelids ...
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The Gemorah in Menachos 62a says the reason is to stop "bad winds":
אמר רב חמא בר עוקבא אמר רבי יוסי בר רבי חנינא מוליך ומביא כדי לעצור רוחות רעות מעלה ומוריד כדי לעצור טללים רעים
Although I realize this is not an answer as to why "davka" (specifically) the ones that are waved.
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