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\u201cAnd bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother,\u201d said God, \u201cand his sons with him… that they may minister unto Me.\u201d The word for \u2018bring near\u2019 – <\/span>hakrev<\/span><\/em> \u2013 rings within the sentence like a note of warning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except maybe it doesn\u2019t. After all, the root k-r-v<\/em> didn\u2019t come to stand for an offering, <\/span>korban<\/span><\/em>, until the completion of the Tabernacle. Cain brought a \u2018<\/span>mincha<\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/i>, a word that connotes laying out. Abraham called his offerings \u2018<\/em><\/span>olah<\/span><\/em>, from the word for raising up. Only later, after Aaron and his sons were already brought near and called to duty, did the word come to stand for offerings and sacrifices.<\/span><\/p>\n

So maybe, at the time, Moses only heard the promise in God\u2019s order, in His <\/span>hakrev<\/span><\/em>. The root k-r-v<\/em> speaks of closeness, or of one\u2019s insides. How wonderful to be brought so close to God, into the intestines \u2013 so to speak \u2013 \u00a0of His worship. Korach will one day burn with jealousy over this privilege. King David will write \u201cBut as for me, the nearness (\u2018<\/em><\/span>kirvat<\/span><\/em>\u2019) of God is my good.\u201d Yehudah Halevi will weave this word into a song of yearning. \u201c<\/span>Darashti kirvatecha<\/span><\/em>,\u201d, he will write. I sought Your closeness.<\/span><\/p>\n

And maybe Moses, who grew up without his brother, heard within this word a different promise, too. \u201cBring thoem near unto thee,\u201d said God, and only then, \u201cthat they may minister.\u201d Aaron, who didn\u2019t share the intimacies of fraternity with Moses in their childhood, could be his partner now. They could work together, and share the intimacies of serving God.<\/span><\/p>\n

So yes, perhaps Moses didn\u2019t hear any alarms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did he hear them in hindsight, I wonder? Did he hear them after God first spoke of \u2018korban<\/em>\u2019 as an offering in Leviticus, or when Aaron\u2019s sons offered, \u2018<\/span>vayakrivu<\/span><\/em>\u2019, \u201cstrange fire before the LORD\u201d and were devoured for it? Did it echo within him when he turned to his bereaved and grieving brother and said \u201cThis is it that the LORD spoke, saying: Through them that are nigh unto Me (\u2018<\/span>krovai<\/span><\/em>\u2019) I will be sanctified?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

But no. Moses must have heard the warning from the get go. After all, all intimacies can be a path to being devoured and consumed. 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