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TORAH PORTION; Feel the Pain - It's the Only Way to Heal
; ...04-21-2005 The story of the deaths of Nadab and Abihu was told two weeks ago in Parshat Shemini...immediate aftermath of the deaths of Nadab and Abihu, the Torah forbids any signs of mourning...Aaron's wife and the mother of Nadab and Abihu, mourning her sons' deaths despite the...
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Shemini: strange fire
; ...Page: 14 Thursday, March 27, 2008 -- "Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took a pan, put fire in it, placed incense upon it, and...Leviticus 10:1-2) While the text makes it clear that Nadab and Abihu died, and that they brought a "strange fire" into the sanctuary...
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A Story Told In Silence
; SHABBAT SHEMINI 'And Aaron was silent." Aaron's response to the sudden death of his two sons, Nadav and Abihu, was silence. The entire episode, narrated in this week's Torah reading, is enigmatic. We are told that the two sons each took...
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Balancing apathy and passion
; ...sin of passion may be that of Nadab and Abihu, Aaron's sons, who died when they brought...than "sins of snow." Even if Nadab and Abihu committed a transgression, the following...generation. But the passion of Nadab and Abihu merely leads to a commandment, which appears...
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Good intentions are not enough
; ...more explicit than the story of Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, the High Priest. They...disaster hit. "Now Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it...have been horrific. But what was Nadab and Abihu's transgression, making them worthy of...
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The joy and tragedy of drinking
; ...tragedies in the Bible the death of Nadab and Abihu, the two sons of Aaron the High Priest...the Midrash is teaching that Nadab and Abihu were executed because, while intoxicated...separate blessing. Apparently Nadab and Abihu, at least according to the Midrash cited...
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Praying with fire
; ...on the altar as a sign of heavenly acceptance that Nadab and Abihu were also consumed by divine fire! What occasioned such divine...built exactly according to the Divine directions. Then Nadab and Abihu came along with "a strange fire, which they had not been commanded...
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When silence is the best answer
; ...this time to claim the lives of Aaron's beloved sons Nadab and Abihu. Rashi, the great commentator who faithfully conveys the most...either through me or through you. Now I see that they [Nadab and Abihu] were greater than both of us." Especially in light of this...
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Holy food for a holy nation
; ...his sons as kohanim - priests dedicated to the service of God - is marred by a terrible tragedy. Two of his sons, Nadab and Abihu, are killed when they offered before the Lord alien fire, which He had not enjoined upon them (Leviticus 10:1). They are consumed...
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The Development of Incense Cult in Israel
; ...Exodus 30 and the narratives of the rebellions of Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10) and of the sons of Ko:rah (Numbers 16-18). The...claims of the Jerusalemite priests. The deaths of Nadab and Abihu marked a further internal struggle within the Jerusalemite priesthood...
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