Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 24, Parshas Shmini
- Sefas Tamim
- Jul 9
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In Parshas Shmini, we encounter one of the Torah's most tragic episodes: the sudden death of Aharon's sons, Nadav and Avihu, as they bring an unauthorized offering before Hashem. The Torah describes their actions with striking brevity: "And Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aharon, each took his fire pan, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered a strange fire before Hashem, which He had not commanded them." (Vayikra 10:1). The consequences were swift and severe, "Fire went out from before Hashem and consumed them, and they died before Hashem." (Vayikra 10:2)...