Spilling Blood: For Good and For Bad | Acharei Mot 5784

We read the same parasha every year - how does it not get repetitive? The Torah does not change, but hopefully we have changed - and if we have changed then the parasha will be different. This year, I have seen something in the parasha I have never noticed before:
Since we buried Daniel’s blood-stained army uniform and other blood, the topic of blood has been on my mind and I noticed that most of Acharei Mot is about blood: the central piece of the service of the Kohen Gadol is about the sprinkling of the blood, and Chapter 17 is all about blood - the prohibition of eating blood, covering the blood, etc. I noticed that the term the Torah uses for murder of “spilling blood” is the same as the term used about the atonement of sprinkling blood in the Temple.
It seems that the only way blood is allowed to be spilled is through the service in the Temple. That is the only place we take blood, which so many spill recklessly and murderously outside, and ‘spill’ it as an atonement in the Beit HaMikdash.
May the blood which has been spilled in the Land be our atonement and the last of the blood being spilled - and may we merit that the only blood spilled will be in the Temple offered out of our love and connection to G-d.

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Shabbat shalom. Thank you Rabbi