Why God Commands Sacrifices Though He Needs No Food

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Emor 20:6

Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said: If your evil inclination comes to make you ponder and say, "Were it not that there is eating and drinking before Him, He would not have told me to offer sacrifice and pour out a libation to Him" — what is written? "The continual burnt offering which was made at Mount Sinai" (Numbers 28:6). But did they offer sacrifices at Mount Sinai? Rather, behold Moses, who went up to Mount Sinai — let him tell you whether there is eating and drinking before Me. The Holy One, blessed be He, said: I have troubled you to bring an offering in order to bring merit to you.

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