All posts in: Shemini

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  Shemini

  10 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

  11 months 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

  11 months 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

  11 months 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

  11 months 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

  11 months 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

  11 months 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

  11 months 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
• Shemini

  11 months ago

  The importance of Sin

  The pig is called the “Chazir” from the word “Chozer”, return. The Medrash Shochar Tov on Tehilim 146 tells us that in the future when the world becomes ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Shemini

  11 months ago

  Are you a man or a mouse???

  One of the unkosher birds listed in Parshas Shemini (11:19) is the “Chasida”, the stork. Rashi says that it is called Chasida from the word “Chosid”, pious. ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose