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 ..
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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 ..
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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 ..
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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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