Musar for Keritot 49:46
אין מביא אשם תלוי אלא על שזדונו כרת ושגגתו חטאת
BECAUSE IT RENDERS HER FIT TO PARTAKE OF SACRIFICIAL FLESH.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The sacrifice is not expiatory, but serves to render her fit again to partake of holy things, after the period of uncleanness caused by the birth.');"><sup>28</sup></span>
Mesilat Yesharim
This is as the matter of Bava Ben Buta who would bring an Asham Talui (undetermined guilt offering) every day (Keritut 25a). Likewise, Iyov, after his sons' feast, would rise early and bring burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For he told himself: "perhaps my children have sinned [and blasphemed G-d in their hearts]" (Iyov 1:5).
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