#The Ketoros have eleven spices, ten sweet-smelling spices plus the chelb’na, a foul-smelling ingredient. The 1o spices represent the Jewish community, symbolized by the number ten, the minimum microcosm of an eida, a representative community. The chelb’na represents the wicked who have temporarily divorced themselves from the community but must be included since they too must and will return to the fold. The offering of the ketores represents in a sense, the offering of K’nesses Yisrael, the totality of the Jewish people to HKB”H. The great love of HKB”H for his nation and even the wicked among them is thus actively demonstrated twice daily and once a year in the inner chamber, in the presence of the keruvim representing this love.
I feel like this guy is in the same category as the chelb’na… being that he has a “bad smell”, something that is bothering others. But if they were to bring the ketoros without that one bad smelling spice it wasn’t kosher. It may be very hard to bear this with patience, but he is one of Hahsem’s beloveds, and you never know who’s zchus is holding up who.