All posts in: Shemini

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  Shemini

  12 months ago

  Why were Nadav and Avihu punished?

  And a fire went out from before Hashem and consumed them (10:2) The Gemora explains that Nadav and Avihu deserved to die because they were once walking behind Moshe ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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• Shemini

  1 year ago

  Shemini

  The Gaon from Vilna, already known as a child prodigy, was challenged when he was six years old to explain the connection between the words: to distinguish between ..

  Written by Rabbi Dovid Sipper
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  Shemini

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  Written by Anonymous
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  Prosecution becoming Defendants

  As the opening Rashi tells us, our sedra takes place on the eighth day of the inauguration of the Mishkan. Aharon is instructed to take several sacrifices, among ..

  Written by D Fine
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  Parashas Shemini – Journey to the Centre of the Torah

  Parashas Shemini – Journey to the Centre of the Torah This week’s sedra, Shemini, contains three distinct themes. The parasha begins with the first service ..

  Written by Daniel Sandground
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  Humble Aaron deserved His Position!!

  On the day of the inauguration of the Mishkan, Moshe tells Aharon, “Approach the Mizbayach (Kerav el hamizbeiach) and make your sin offering and burnt offering ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  The whole truth

  As Rashi makes clear (10:20), Moshe admitted that he had erred in a certain law in our sedra. In Rashi’s words ‘he admitted and was not embarrassed to say that ..

  Written by d fine
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  What did Nadav and Avihu do to deserve this terrible punishment??

  The Meforshim offer many reasons why Nadav and Avihu died a premature death. Daas Zekainim quotes a Midrash: R’ Levi said that Nadav and Avihu never married. ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  Kashrus & Silence?

  Rashi 11:2 tells us that the reward for Aharon’s silence (and that of others) at the deaths of his two sons was that the portion of the Torah regarding kashrus ..

  Written by d fine
• Shemini

  1 year ago

  Zecher nishmas Rav Elimelech M’Lizhensk – Noam Elimelech on his Yahrtzeit

  How is it that a great Tzaddik can commit even the slightest aveira? How can he be a great tzaddik if he sinned?? The Noam Elimelech answers that when a Tzaddik ..

  Written by Anonymous