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The story of Nadav and Avihu, Aaron\u2019s sons who were consumed by fire after offering an incense sacrifice to God at the dedication of the Mishkan, is the subject of many interpretations. Central to the discussion is the question of what they did wrong that warranted their immediate death.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Was it the zealotry of being carried away by the intensity of the moment and acting outside of that which was commanded? Was it the arrogance and disrespect for Moses when they neglected to consult him about the type and timing of the incense offering? Did they lose their lives because they didn\u2019t carry out the sacrificial service correctly, either by not preparing themselves or the sacrifice according to the proscribed details? Or were Nadav and Avihu punished for entering the Mishkan while intoxicated?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first words from God after the fiery death of Nadav and Avihu were to tell Aaron \u201c<\/span>Do not drink wine that will lead to intoxication, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, so that you shall not die (Leviticus 10:9).\u201d The timing of the commandment is the source for the opinion that intoxication was the cause of Nadav and Avihu\u2019s death, but it raises a new question. If the commandment was only given after the incident with Nadav and Avihu, then how could they be held accountable for breaching it? Dr. Avigdor Bonchek posits that the answer lies in common sense. To not enter a holy place while intoxicated is something that men of their level should have understood intuitively. So, they were held to account for the infraction of a common-sense rule even though they hadn\u2019t been told explicitly to not behave that way. To this reader though, that explanation seems inadequate to the occasion. Nadav and Avihu were priests of high standing, not small children who a parent may punish because they \u201cshould have known better.\u201d No matter how you explain Nadav and Avihu\u2019s actions and death, the whole episode is a tremendous tragedy that Aaron would have felt deeply.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Ari Kahn provides a new idea about this oddly placed commandment. When God gave him the commandment about wine, he addressed only Aaron directly. He didn\u2019t tell Moses to tell Aaron, or address Moses and Aaron together. The order to refrain from wine was given directly and only to Aaron. The Gemara (Sanhedrin) quotes a proverb that says God created wine only in order to give comfort to mourners. Aaron was surely in need of comfort, but he was also in the midst of dedicating the Mishkan. 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The oxymoron \u201cthunderous silence\u201d could pertain to Aaron\u2019s response to Moses\u2019 attempts to comfort him following the deaths of his two eldest sons during the dedication of the Tabernacle (Leviticus 10:1-2): \u201cThen Moses said to Aaron, \u201cThis is what God meant by saying: Through those near to Me I show Myself holy, and gain glory before all the people.\u201d <\/span>And Aaron was silent<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What did Aaron\u2019s \u201csilence\u201d connote? What was Aaron thinking and feeling at that moment?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah is notoriously devoid of attributing inner thoughts and emotions to its protagonists, leaving the reader to imagine what these individuals were sensing while experiencing the high\u2019s and low\u2019s of their respective existences. We are usually told only what is said aloud, rather than how an individual feels. Trying to discern the implications of Aaron\u2019s response, or lack thereof, is one of these instances.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Various commentators share their perspectives regarding this human situation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, following the Talmud and the Midrash, interprets that Aaron displayed incredible self-control after considering his younger brother\u2019s comments, and was rewarded by God by receiving prophecy independent from Moses:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

AND AARON WAS SILENT \u2014 He received a reward for his silence. And what was the reward he received? That the subsequent Divine address was made to him alone and not to Moses also \u2014 for to him alone was spoken the section (v. 9\u201411) dealing with those (<\/span>priests<\/span><\/i>) who are intoxicated by wine. (<\/span>See v. 8<\/span><\/i>.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nachmanides, in the first of two explanations, maintains that Aaron muffled his complaints, but continued to feel bereft:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026This means that he had sobbed aloud, but then (<\/span>after Moses pointed out that his sons were close to God<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i>) he became silent (<\/span>but continued to shed tears<\/span><\/em>) \u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A third understanding of how Aaron reacted to the deaths of his sons and Moses\u2019s comments, is indicated in Abravanel\u2019s biblical commentary, when he posits that Aaron was simply numb:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026The explanation of \u201cAnd Aaron was silent\u201d is that he turned his heart upside down, and he was like an inanimate rock, neither raising his voice in crying and eulogies, like a father mourning his sons, nor did he accept comforting from Moses, because no soul was left within him, and he didn\u2019t speak. For these reasons, the text reads \u201cAnd Aaron was silent (<\/span>vayidom<\/span><\/em>)\u201d like the words \u201cinanimate\u201d (<\/span>domem<\/span><\/em>) and \u201cquiet\u201d (<\/span>d\u2019mamah<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How the reader responds to the phrase, \u201cAnd Aaron was silent,\u201d as well as the various commentaries regarding that expression, might be a function of their personality and experience. Furthermore, the commentators cited all lived during the medieval period. Would a modern sensibility attribute different meanings to the biblical account? Or should we posit that since human nature has remained essentially the same over the course of thousands of years, the range of emotions which we may attribute to Aaron at this moment, would not vary from era to era?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAnd Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, \u201cDo not bare your heads<\/span> and do not rend your clothes, lest you die and anger strike the whole community. But your kin all the house of Israel, shall bewail the fire that God has wrought\u201d (verse 6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does Moses say that the people will weep? Da\u2019at Zkainim reads this as Moses providing assurances to Aaron and his sons that the people will mourn for Nadav and Avihu. Aaron was concerned that if no one mourned for them, then the people would think that his sons had done something so wrong that they had forfeited their priestly status.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ha\u2019amek Davar questions how Moses could command the people to cry. Crying comes only from emotion. He explains that Moses was not commanding the people to cry, but showing them how to cry. Ha\u2019amek Davar differentiates between telling Aaron the people will cry \u201cabout the fire\u201d instead of \u201cover the fire.\u201d Moses tells the people they should cry over whatever causes them to be sad but do so directed at this event. The idea is that if one cannot muster the emotion to cry over a dead body, they should think about something that will cause them to cry and use that as motivation. In this way, the mourner will still honor the dead by weeping.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Ohr HaChaim does not see this as Moses providing motivation, but instead Moses explaining to the people that if they do weep for Aaron\u2019s sons, then it will help prevent this tragedy from happening again. The crying about the fire means they should direct their mournful weeping to the cause of the death of the brothers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For each of these interpretations the undercurrent is that the people themselves may not have been motivated to weep for Aaron\u2019s sons independently. Either Moses had to command them in order to save face for Aaron, Moses had to motivate them by providing advice on how to build up the emotion to cry, or Moses had to motivate them with a promise that mourning would prevent this from happening in the future. None of the answers explain why the people would not spontaneously mourn. It is possible that the people were afraid of how to react. They had just witnessed fire descending from heaven consuming the sons of the high priest. Frozen in a state of fear they may not have known if it was ok for them to weep and mourn. For this reason, Moses had to calm Aaron and coax the emotional reaction from the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a>, which begins with the tragic episode of Aaron\u2019s sons, Nadav and Avihu (<\/span>verses 1-7<\/span><\/a>), continues with the following injunction: \u201cAnd the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, Drink no wine or other intoxicant, you or your sons, when you enter the Tent of Meeting, that you may not die\u2026\u201d (<\/span>verses 8-11<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sacrificial service ceased after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, leading the rabbinic sages to apply the Biblical injunction \u201cDrink no wine\u2026\u201d to Jews in general.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanhuma Buber<\/span><\/a> asks, Why did God give a commandment concerning wine? It is because anyone who drinks wine will have sores, shame, and reproach come upon him. Indeed, the Holy Spirit cries out<\/span> Do not be of those who guzzle wine\u2026!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 This midrashic homily continues to echo Scripture: Who is contentious? About whom do people talk? Who has bleary, red eyes?:<\/span> \"Who cries 'Woe', who 'Alas'? Who has quarrels, who complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Those who tarry over the wine. Those who gather to drain cups\"<\/span><\/a>. When one sees his comrade drinking, he says: Pour one for me to drink. Then he drinks and becomes disgustingly drunk. To buy drink, he ends up selling everything he owns and is left with nothing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the end he declares permitted what is forbidden. He converses with an unknown woman in the marketplace, talking obscenely and saying evil things in a drunken state without being ashamed, because he is confused and knows neither what he is saying nor what he is doing. Strong drink is like a snakebite, as it says:<\/span> In the end, it will bite like a snake<\/span><\/a>. For, when the snake bites a person, he may not immediately feel pain. But after he goes home, the venom in the wound permeates his whole body. When you drink wine, Scripture says: \u201c<\/span>Your eyes will see strange things (<\/span>zarot<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/a>\u201d, suggesting that strong drink may cause you to offer \u201cstrange worship\u201d (<\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>avodah zarah<\/span><\/em>, i.e. idolatry). Moreover, in your drunkenness you will\u00a0 see the whole world as if on a ship in a storm, as it says: \u201c<\/span>You will be like one lying in bed on the high seas, like one lying atop the rigging<\/span><\/a>\u201d. See what is in store for those who drink much wine: \u201c<\/span>Woe! Those who chase liquor from early in the morning, and till late in the evening are inflammed by wine!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

To be sure, this is an unusually negative view of wine, which generally is viewed more positively in<\/span> Jewish thought<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, our midrashic homily ends on a more positive note. The Holy One said to Israel, In this world wine was a curse. But in the world to come, I will make the wine sweet (<\/span>\u2018assis<\/span><\/i>):<\/span> In that day, the mountains shall drip sweet wine<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The beginning of Leviticus 10 has always struck me as quite odd because it describes a dramatic and deeply disturbing event without any narrative drama! Usually in the Bible when people die as a result of God\u2019s will the text is vivid and filled with emotions of rage, disappointment or fear. But in Leviticus 10 God is not angry. God consumes Nadav and Avihu as God would consume a sacrificial offering. The deaths of Nadav and Avihu are not the result of divine punishment, despite a myriad of classical rabbinic texts that try to find fault with Nadav and Avihu.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Second Temple period scholar Philo suggests that Nadav and Avihu were not sinning but were intentionally throwing themselves at God. When God consumed them, God was simply accepting Nadav and Avihu\u2019s self-offering.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In their youth and inexperience, they were caught up in the frenzy of emotions. Let\u2019s keep the context of this chapter in mind. Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron, die on the first day on the job! Just a week earlier in the narrative, Aaron and his sons were ordained as priests. As part of the installation ceremony, they had just spent a week in the Sanctuary in close proximity to God\u2019s holy presence. These were not seasoned priests; they did not benefit from years of apprenticing since they were the very first to take on the mantle of the priesthood. This experience was completely new to them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Clearly the Torah regards the deaths of Nadav and Avihu, the two elder sons of Aaron, as highly significant because it refers to it on no less than four occasions (Lev. 10:1-2, 16:1, Num. 3:4, 26:61). It was a shocking tragedy, occurring as it did on the day of the inauguration of the service of the Mishkan, a moment that should have been one of the great celebrations in Jewish history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sages themselves were puzzled by the episode. The text itself merely says that \u201cthey offered unauthorized fire [esh zarah<\/em>] before the Lord, that He had not commanded. \u00a0So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.\u201d Evidently the sages felt that there must have been something else, some further sin or character flaw, to justify so dire and drastic a punishment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Putting together clues in the biblical text, some speculated that they were guilty of entering the Holy of Holies; that they had given a ruling of their own accord without consulting Moses or Aaron; that they had become intoxicated; that they were not properly robed; that they had not purified themselves with water from the laver; that they were so self-important that they had not married, thinking no woman was good enough for them; or that they were impatient for Moses and Aaron to die so they could become the leaders of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are all midrashic interpretations: true, valid and important but not the plain sense of the verse. The text is clear. On each of the three occasions where their death is mentioned, the Torah says merely that they offered \u201cunauthorized fire\u201d. The sin was that they did something that had not been commanded. They did so, surely, for the highest motives. Moses said to Aaron immediately after they died that this is what God had meant when he said, \u201c\u2018Among those who are near me I will be sanctified\u201d (Lev. 10:3). A midrash says that Moses was comforting his brother by saying, \u201cThey were closer to God than you or me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The history of the word \u201centhusiasm\u201d, though, helps us understand the episode. Nadav and Avihu were \u201centhusiasts\u201d, not in the contemporary sense but in the sense in which the word was used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Enthusiasts were people who, full of religious passion, believed that God was inspiring them to do deeds in defiance of law and convention. They were very holy but they were also potentially very dangerous. David Hume in particular saw that enthusiasm in this sense is diametrically opposed to the mindset of priesthood. In his words, \u201call enthusiasts have been free from the yoke of ecclesiastics, and have expressed great independence of devotion; with a contempt of forms, ceremonies, and traditions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n


\r\nFrom: The Dangers of Enthusiasm (Covenant & Conversation, Shemini 5776)<\/em><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":64970,"alt":"","title":"is6-holy-holy-holy","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","width":428,"height":425,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","medium_large-width":428,"medium_large-height":425,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","large-width":428,"large-height":425,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","1536x1536-width":428,"1536x1536-height":425,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","2048x2048-width":428,"2048x2048-height":425,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","post_full_size-width":428,"post_full_size-height":425,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-423x420.jpg","home_baner-width":423,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Strange Fire, Strange Death II","tile_main_caption":"Too Enthusiastic, Too Passionate?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Too much holiness can be a problem too","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":64970,"alt":"","title":"is6-holy-holy-holy","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","width":428,"height":425,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","medium_large-width":428,"medium_large-height":425,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","large-width":428,"large-height":425,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","1536x1536-width":428,"1536x1536-height":425,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","2048x2048-width":428,"2048x2048-height":425,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","post_full_size-width":428,"post_full_size-height":425,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-423x420.jpg","home_baner-width":423,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"100","date":"20260115","wall_id":"100"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"354","name":"Rabbi Sacks","old_id":"754"},{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"750","name":"Passion","old_id":"1150"}]},{"order":9,"id":"44809","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Aaron\u2019s Grief ","post_title":"Aaron\u2019s Grief","slug":"aarons-grief","old_id":"44809","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":44272,"post_title":"Mimi Micner","slug":"mimi-micner","old_id":"44272","first_name":"Mimi ","last_name":"Micner ","description":"Mimi Micner is a 4th year Rabbinical Student at Hebrew College. 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Leviticus 10 opens with the sudden death of Aaron\u2019s sons Nadav and Avihu. Having offered a \u201cstrange fire\u201d before God, God kills them instantly. Aaron, in response to their sudden death and Moses' explanation of what happened, is silent (10:3). This might surprise us: as their father, why does Aaron seemingly not react, not cry out in anguish or anger?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Generations of commentators help us understand the reaction within the silence. Some look underneath Aaron\u2019s silence to find a process of reconciling to their death. We learn from the Talmud, Zevachim 115b, that Moses told Aaron that their death was a sanctification of God\u2019s name, and since Aaron knew that God loved his sons, he felt relieved. Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Lichtenstein understands that the Hebrew word for \u201csilent\u201d in the verse (\u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05d3\u05bc\u05b9\u0596\u05dd) emphasizes that his heart and soul were at peace, and he did not question God\u2019s verdict or justice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Others have interpreted his silence to mean that he was mourning. Rabbeinu Bahya teaches that silence is one of the ways in which people express mourning. Baruch Levine comments that a better way to translate \u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05d3\u05bc\u05b9\u0596\u05dd is \u201cto mourn\u201d, which suggests that Aaron initiated formal Jewish mourning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another interpretation is that Aaron\u2019s heart broke, rendering him silent. Abravanel teaches that Aaron\u2019s heart turned to lifeless stone, and because of this he neither mourned as a grieving father would, nor did he accept Moses\u2019 attempt to console him. His soul simply left him, and he was speechless.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Those of us who have experienced loss or have been with others who have experienced loss may have noticed an interesting paradox: while we have a deep cultural understanding of what grief is supposed to look like, we also know that no one grieves in exactly the same way. Some, like Aaron, are silent, while others want to talk a lot about their loved one. Some cry, while others seem emotionless as they focus on the logistical aspects of the loss. Contemporary grief theory suggests that many people\u2019s grief includes alternating between deep sadness and focus on the loss to moving forward with life and not engaging with the loss much at all. There is simply no one way, and no right way, to grieve.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Aaron\u2019s response to his son\u2019s death reminds us that grief can take many forms. Whether his silence meant he was in an inner process of reconciliation, was engaged in Jewish mourning practices, or was simply heartbroken, he was surely in the process of grieving, whether or not it might look like that to us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u2026<\/span><\/i>and Aaron was silent.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Leviticus 10:3<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mother, why does Father not talk to us<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When we ask how this happened to our brothers?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His lips are a sealed vial;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His shoulders tense;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He turns away<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And leaves<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To make peace between the sons of Reuben.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Lord took them, my sons;<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>I can say nothing more, for your father<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>remains silent.<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Aunt Miriam, why does our father not hear us<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When we ask why the Lord took Nadav and Avihu?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His ears are blocked reeds;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His back stiffens;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He turns away<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And marches out<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To make peace between the sons of Simeon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They brought Strange Fire, my sons;<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>I can say no more, for your father<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>remains silent.<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Aunt Zipporah, why does our father not look at us<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When we ask about the Strange Fire?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His eyes are locked caskets;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His face tightens;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He turns away<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And strides out<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To meet Uncle Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I do not know, my sons.<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>Questions on the Fire rise<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>as a mountain above all answers and your father, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>like the wilderness at night,<\/b>
\r\n<\/b>cannot but remain silent. <\/b><\/p>\r\n

From Ruth Fogelman\u2019s book, \u201cLeaving the Garden\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"Questions on the Fire rise as a mountain above all answers and your father, like the wilderness at night, cannot but remain silent.","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Elazar And Itamar, Sons Of Aaron","tile_preview_embedded":"\r\n","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"100","date":"20260115","wall_id":"100"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"}]},{"order":11,"id":"44811","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Nadav and Abihu in Peshat and Derash ","post_title":"Nadav And Abihu In Peshat And Derash","slug":"nadav-and-abihu-in-peshat-and-derash","old_id":"44811","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. He is the author of TANAKH: An Owner\u2019s Manual (Jerusalem: Urim\/Ktav, 2015).\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34244,"alt":"","title":"sokolow","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","width":302,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","medium_large-width":302,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","large-width":302,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","1536x1536-width":302,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","2048x2048-width":302,"2048x2048-height":300,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","post_full_size-width":302,"post_full_size-height":300,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","home_baner-width":302,"home_baner-height":300}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"100","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Unauthorized, intemperate, immoderate...","post_main_content_content":"

Our chapter succinctly recounts the tragic deaths of Nadab and Abihu who briefly served alongside their father Aaron until they were struck dead by a heavenly flame.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The circumstances leading to their deaths, however, are shrouded in ambiguity. Here (10:1), as well as on two subsequent occasions (cf. Numbers 3:4, 26:61), their crime is reported as \u201coffering a strange fire\u201d (\u2018<\/em><\/span>esh zarah<\/span><\/em>), a term used nowhere else in the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A simple, straightforward reading (<\/span>peshat<\/span><\/em>) of 10:1 suggests that the conclusion of the verse, \u201c[a strange fire] which they were not commanded,\u201d serves as its explanation. They were expected to wait for the divine flame that was to descend, miraculously, from heaven; their production of a mortal flame, therefore, was \u201cstrange\u201d in the sense of unauthorized and for that they were punished.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A more complex reading (<\/span>derash<\/span><\/em>), however, draws on the context. As soon as the corpses had been removed from the sanctuary (vs. 4-5) and the immediate family members instructed on the mourning rites (vs. 6-7), God issued this caution to Aaron and his surviving sons: \u201cDo not have wine or strong drink prior to entering the Tent of Meeting, lest you die\u201d (v. 9), implying that the deaths of Nadab and Abihu resulted from intoxication, described, figuratively, as a \u201cstrange fire.\u201d A combinations of the two approaches is also feasible: their disobedience could have resulted from their inebriation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Alternatively, the disobedience could be attributed to a misplaced zeal, a misdirected passion, which can also be termed a \u201cstrange fire.\u201d Indeed, while hardly conclusive evidence, the Yiddish word for zeal is \u201c<\/span>bren<\/span><\/em>,\u201d which literally means to burn.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":44818,"alt":"","title":"fire1","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1.jpg","width":2027,"height":1978,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-300x293.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":293,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-768x749.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":749,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-1024x999.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":999,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1499,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1.jpg","2048x2048-width":2027,"2048x2048-height":1978,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-1200x1171.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1171,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-430x420.jpg","home_baner-width":430,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Strange Fire, Strange Death IV","tile_main_caption":"Nadav and Abihu in Peshat and Derash","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Unauthorized, intemperate, immoderate...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":44818,"alt":"","title":"fire1","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1.jpg","width":2027,"height":1978,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-300x293.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":293,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-768x749.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":749,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-1024x999.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":999,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1499,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1.jpg","2048x2048-width":2027,"2048x2048-height":1978,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-1200x1171.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1171,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire1-430x420.jpg","home_baner-width":430,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"100","date":"20260115","wall_id":"100"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"702","name":"Fire","old_id":"1102"},{"term_id":"750","name":"Passion","old_id":"1150"}]},{"order":12,"id":"44888","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Aaron's Silence, Aaron's Comfort ","post_title":"Aaron's Silence, Aaron's Comfort","slug":"aarons-silence-aarons-comfort","old_id":"44888","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34285,"post_title":"Tammy Jacobowitz","slug":"tammy-jacobowitz","old_id":"34285","first_name":"Tammy ","last_name":"Jacobowitz ","description":"Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz is the chair of the Tanakh department at the SAR High School in Riverdale, NY, and is the founding director of Makom Ba'Siach at SAR, an immersive adult education program for parents. 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As the dedication for the mishkan draws to a close, all eyes are fixed on Aaron. He steps forward to the altar, consecrating it with the opening offerings. With his hands lifted high, Aaron blesses the assembly; alone at first, then joined by Moses, his brother and guide. Fire erupts on the altar and the entire assembly perceives the divine presence. \u201cAnd all the people saw, and shouted, and fell on their faces.\u201d In certain respects, this theophany at the Tent is reminiscent of Sinai. A large crowd is in attendance; God\u2019s presence is sensed equally by all; God is, in some sense, seen by the crowd. But here at the tent, it is Aaron\u2019s moment; he, rather than Moses, brings the congregation close to God.<\/p>\r\n

At the height of Aaron\u2019s success-- in the midst of the joyous celebration -- Aaron\u2019s two sons, Nadav and Avihu, suddenly die. With all eyes locked on Aaron, his sons slip unnoticed to the altar, fire pans in hand, in search perhaps of their own, personal encounter with God. Whether their motives are pure or not, they act off script; a radical aberration to a choreographed ceremony. In response, they are taken swiftly, before God, by God.<\/p>\r\n

And Aaron, their father, trapped in his high priest garb, is silent. Some say that he is silent in stoic acceptance. He could have screamed out in horror, and no one would have judged. His voice would hardly have registered in the cacophony. He might have questioned or challenged God, as Job did. Did he suppress his paternal pain in service of the priesthood?<\/p>\r\n

Perhaps, as Leviticus Rabbah suggests, Aaron is silent -- in measured relief -- when he learns from Moses that his sons were, in fact, God-fearing. Moses explains: \u2018God had told me that His house would be sanctified by those near to Him, and I thought you or I would have the honor. Now I know that your sons are greater than the both of us.\u2019<\/p>\r\n

These words would seem to deliver a strange sort of comfort to a shaken, grieving father. But to a father whose eyes had been fixed on the altar, the people, and the presence of God, Moses\u2019 words restores his vision of his sons. He had not been watching them when they veered off script, but they were the same sons he had known and loved. 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\u201cNadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer and put inside fire and incense, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded. \u00a0Fire burst out from before the Lord and devoured them; and they died before the Lord.\u201d (Leviticus 10:1-2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My two sons saw, towering<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Above the flat, barren desert<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A mesa-like mountain<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>(Most see the mountain).<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A serpent's path slithers up the erect, protruding cliff<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>(Some glimpse the path).<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The upper peaks hide a grove:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Ancient, evergreen, watered by four springs<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>(Few perceive the grove).<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In the heart of the grove juts up the mountain\u2019s summit,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Capped by a palace of pearl white<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Holiness,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Shimmering like a glacier;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Its ice minarets of sanctity beckon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u201cBrother, do you see the ice glittering, calling out to <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> To rise above the desert of our flatness<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> And ascend?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> \u201cBut the rocks, brother, they\u2019re knives that cut, that slash. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If a step is missed, \u2014 we stumble, fall, dive.
\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Father\u2019s Map outlines the precipices and clefts,
\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Points out which boulders to avoid, which stones to cling to.
\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Father promised: \u00a0the Map alone guarantees safe arrival
\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And survival.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u201cBrother, the Map\u2019s paths crawl.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> My soul, inflamed, burns to be soothed by ice.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Rise with me now, high<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Like a pillar of smoke,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Like a column of fire.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> No map, but with speed<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Ascend.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

My sons saw, and soared.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pearl towers glistening like icicles can sing,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Then singe; then burn.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Charcoal black.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Crisp.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAaron's Silence, Aaron's Speech\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Elisheva Urbas: When does Aaron speak and when is he silent? What does it mean? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Incense<\/em>. Nadav and Avihu brought incense. Not just fire. Something else to take into account in trying to figure out what those sons of Aaron were trying to accomplish.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Synchronous, or diachronous<\/em>? The chapters present what seems like a continuous story. According to this view, the sin of Nadav and Avihu occurred after the descent of the Shechina. But in contrast, try reading the two stories side by side. Now, is it possible that the divine fire of th sacrifices (\u201cFire came forth from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering\u201d), is actually the same fire that kills Nadav and Avihu, \u201cAnd fire came forth from the LORD and consumed them\u201d (10:2)?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. \u201cThrough those near to Me I show Myself holy.\u201d<\/em> Who are \u201cthose near (<\/span>kerovim<\/span><\/em>)? And how does God\u2019s holiness become manifest through them? Did Moses know anything he\u2019s not saying? Check out the commentators for insights.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The legal side of the story.<\/em> Verse 9 warns the priests not to enter the sacred precincts drunk. This raises a suspicion that perhaps this was connected to the sin of Nadav and Avihu.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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