Day: April 8, 2015

Greatness Does Not Preclude Humility

Divrei Torah - Nadav and Avihu were great individuals. Yet we are told (Vayikra 10:1) that they sinned, having “brought before G-d an alien fire that He had not commanded them.

The Torah portion of Shmini includes, among instructions to the kohanim (priests) for the inauguration of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) during the sojourn of the Children of Israel in the desert, a reference to the death of Aaron’s son Nadav and Avihu. In his Michtav MiEliyahu vol. II, pp. 244-250, the noted mashgiach of Yeshivat Ponovezh R. Eliyahu Dessler (1892-1953) analyzes the matter of Nadav […]