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. ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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. ..
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The climax of the mishkan process, the final day of its inauguration, tales place in our sedra. During that day, Nadav and Avihu, the two sons of Aharon, bring a ketores ..
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[heard this short vort from my friend Yoni Sagal]. The Torah says that one of the non-kosher birds is the ‘chassidah’ (11;19). Rashi there tells us that ..
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We are told in parshas Shemini about the kosher animals and some examples of non kosher animals. However something doesn’t seem right here, we are told about ..
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On the 8th day of the inauguration of the Mishkan, Yom Shemini L’Miluim, Aaron and the Bnei Yisroel brought special Korbonos. Although Aaron brought an Egel ..
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The sedra is called shemini; meaning ‘the 8th.’ The Maharal points out that the number 7 represents the natural world. There are 7 colours in the spectrum ..
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