The order the Torah gives us when commanding us which
animals are kosher for sacrifice are: ox, sheep, and goat. Why does Hashem give
over the ox first? Why not the sheep or goat? The reason for this is that
Hashem wanted to teach that He did not blame Bnai Israel for the sin of the
golden calf. Rather, the airev rav- converted Egyptians- were the ones to
blame. They created the golden
calf and proclaimed to Bnai Israel that ‘this is your god!’ Furthermore, in
order to avoid the nations of the world sneering at us saying, ‘You made a
golden calf!’ Hashem put an ox at the head of the list of korbanot in order to
counteract those slanderous statements for people to see that Jews sacrifice
oxen, they do not serve them as gods.
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