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“Nice to say that, but it’s not really fine when I give you the literal translation of the passuk, and you say you interpret it differently as a demand. Isn’t that what xians have done with the whole Torah? Please cite me a source to back it up other than the source I am disputing, which is either you or your rebbe.”
Hey rso I was happy to leave it at that as I believe I have explained myself adequately, and you seem to have a less pshat understanding of pshat. However since you can’t seem to let it go, I will present it in such a way that the ben chomesh lmikra can understand. I hope that will suffice and if not, than you should explain WHY instead of just repeating that its not what I said, it’s a request.
OK here is the posuk:
וַיֹּאמְרוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים הָהֵמָּה אֵלָיו אֲנַחְנוּ טְמֵאִים לְנֶפֶשׁ אָדָם לָמָּה נִגָּרַע לְבִלְתִּי הַקְרִב אֶת קָרְבַּן ה במועדו
So if we were to understand lama nigara as a request, that would make no sense. Because the answer to “why should we lack (the opportunity) to bring a korban to Hashem in its right time?” Is “because you are tamei and tamei people cannot bring the korban.”
But wait. Obviously they know that already, in fact, in the very same posuk they say “anachnu tmeim lonefesh.”
So they werent asking why can’t they as in a request. Because they already answered their own question before they even asked it. So the simple pshat reading of the posuk is that lama nigara isn’t a request as in why not, it is a protest and demand for the right to fulfil it because they don’t want to miss out for doing something good! In that case, Moshe rabbeinu says, let me see whet Hashem says. Hashem also didn’t respond with an explanation as to why they are going to miss out. Rather He gave them a new mitzvah and opportunity so they shouldn’t miss out. I hope this clarifies in case it wasn’t clear enough before.