Vayikra: the power of the animal offering
The parsha starts out with an intentional ambiguity between vayikar and Vayikra, the small aleph. The ambiguity points out the elements of equivalence. The interaction between Moshe ( and/or the Kohen) and Gd, the vayikrah interaction was very similar to that of Bilam and Gd , the vayikar interaction. The animal offering has power that is independent of the beneficence of its intention. Gd's rule are unfathomable, but they are fairly firm rule.
Consider the Lamed in shlomim. It comes as a lightning bolt inside the word shomaim.
Rashi seems to take the whole parsha as code: Chatos means leshmah, shlomim means pacification. He's probably right.

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