1- What is El Korbana?

2- Where El Korbana is made?

3- How it is made?

4- The middle seal of the Korbana

5- Choosing the lamb

5- During the Liturgy

     What is El_Korbana? = The word korbana is Syrian and it means offering/sacrifice.

-It is rounded as The Sun Like our Lord Jesus Christ the Sun of our lives.

-It is a circle which has no end or beginning a symbol to our lord Jesus Christ.

     Where is is made : Bethlehem = Hebrew for the house of bread. The place of the birth of Christ. Him being the Bread of life. Bethlehem is in the south of the Jerusalem; our Bethlehem is in the south of the church (Heavenly Jerusalem). 

     How it is made ? El – Korbana is made of white flour as symbol of purity of our Lord Jesus.

Yeast is added to the dough which is a symbol of sin that Christ carried in His body on the Cross. As sin dies in the oven, sin dyed in the body of Christ on the Cross. Christ ended the effect of sin through offering His body as sacrifice.

Salt is not added to the dough to fix its taste or make it better because the Body of Christ is perfect, and doesn’t anything or salt to fix it.

Usually, the deacon who makes the korban reads the 150 psalm as they include a lot of prophecies about the incarnation of Christ.

The 5 sacrifices of the Old Testament: (The burnt offering, sin offering, inequity offering, peace offering and bread offering) - All of these sacrifices were archetypes of the sacrifice of the cross and therefore also of the sacrifice of the Holy Liturgy.

     The Middle seal in the Korbana : is like a circle on its edges written  Agios Othe-os Agios Is-shiros Agios Athanatos = Holy God Holy Mighty Holy Immortal

n  In the middle of this circle there is a big cross surrounded by 12 crosses as a symbol of the 12 disciples , this cross is called in greek Spadikon = decpotikon = The Lord. In Arabic espadikon

n  5 holes are made in the korbana 3 in the right of the espadikon and 2 in the left as a symbol of the nails (3)  and also the pierce in the side also the crown on his head when he was crucified.

     Choosing the lamb : The priest chooses the lamb from 3, 5, 7 – always an odd number.

3 = The Trinity which we choose one during the liturgy as a sympol of the incarnation of the Word of God to save us.

5 = The 5 kinds sacrifices of the Old Testament using sheep, cows, goats, pigeons or turtledoves.

7 = the above 5 sacrifices plus the 2 birds to purify the leper.

     During the Liturgy Turning the Spadikon and placing it upside down in the Chalice to be immersed in the Blood symbolize the act of crucifying Christ, the Lamb of God, who carries the sin of the whole world, when they laid Him on His back to nail Him on the cross. As they began to place the nails in His hands and feet, the blood gushed out and covered His Pure Body, His perpetrators acting like a butcher when he slays a sheep, turning it on its back and slitting its throat.