Shemini Essay

After 7 days of building and deconstruction the mishkan where it’s just not working , Moshe says to Aharon, bring an egel lechatas, which was keneged the egel hazahav.
The sin of the egel was that Moshe is gone and the neshama so to speak had left us, if we can’t see it it’s not here.
So too the 7 days that they spent building and taking down the mishkan benei Yisrael thought there was nothing there, and the lesson from the chatas is that everything is really there, but it’s very hidden. Just like besamim the smell it’s there but you can only smell it when you shake it up. So too with tznius, it’s showing us that something is there lurking in the background, and that’s really the main thing, hidden away.
So too with ones mind, it needs to be shaken up for the good to come out, (so too in tachlis ha’aliya hayerida. )

And this is what nadav and avihu were trying to bring it, just the guf being so important, that’s why their guf remained intact. This is symbolized by the name ekye, which is the name of redemption.