You shall present a burnt offering, a fire-offering of pleasing aroma to Hashem: thirteen bulls of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old without blemish.
English: It appears that the reason the bulls decrease day by day is that there are two aspects of sevens: the nations are the many — seventy nations, and they are compared to bulls — and Yisrael too is in the aspect of seven.
Type of Learning
Symbolic decrease of the Sukkos bulls.
What Is Learned
The diminishing count maps the seventy nations and Yisrael’s own sevenfold structure.