Aaron’s Silence Comments on Torah Portion Shemini 2022 Two young men meet a sudden, tragic death in our Torah portion. The scene is described tersely: Now Aaron’s sons Nadav and Avihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and they offered before
The Book of Proverbs, which offers a rather eclectic group of pithy maxims and teachings, observations about the world and human nature, and a few longer poems extolling universal virtues, frequently uses the word torah. In the opening verses of the book, which are framed as advice to a youth,
When most people think of Torah, they likely think of the Five Books of Moses (also known as the Pentateuch): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. These five books together form the first and most sacred third of the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh. In synagogues throughout the world, they are