“If any man of you brings an offering,” specifically “man,” and specifically “from you.” “Man,” “You are called ‘man’” (Yevamot 60). “I have found one man out of a thousand. A thousand enter a room, and one comes out to the light” (in the Midrash).

This means that in the whole of Israel, too, not everyone is called “man,” but only one out of a thousand. “Man,” “In the end, after all is heard, for this is the whole of man.”

Fear of heaven. This means that there is fear of earthliness, as it is written, “There is no advantage to man over beast, since all is vanity.” Fear of earthliness is called “the people of the earth,” meaning that one is afraid that he might not provide for the needs of the body, and fear of heaven means that he is afraid he might not obtain the things that are the needs of heaven, meaning Kedusha [holiness], Tahara [purity], Torah and Mitzvot [commandments], and Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator.

The matter of “fear” pertains specifically to something that man craves. To the extent of the intensity of the desire, so is the measure of the fear. That is, if one does not have a great yearning for something, he is not so afraid that he might not obtain it.

In order to achieve such a desire, which pertains to the quality of “man,” one must begin with offerings, meaning to make an offering from the beast to the Creator. This is the meaning of “If any man of you brings an offering.” That is, “from you,” Israel, if someone wants to approach the Creator and be discerned as “man,” “If any man of you brings an offering,” the order is an offering from the beast to the Creator, etc.

In other words, all the needs that pertain to beastliness must be offered to the Creator, and by this one enters a kind of the quality of man, a kind that is related to fear of heaven.