Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Acharei Mos-Kedoshim (Video 178)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yehoshua Balkany’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Good evening. This week's parsha is parshas acharei mos and kedoshim, a double parsha once again. The opening pasuk many meforshim they're very curious why the first pasuk of this seder which most of the seder talks about the avodah of the kohen gadol on Yom Kippur. Kippur. And is indeed the first morning, the morning of Yom Kippur, this is the keriah. But the opening pasuk talks about the fact that Aaron's two sons, Nadav and Avihu, were niftar. Why in introducing this seder that has so many aspects about Yom Kippur has so many aspects about Yom Kippur would it throw in at the very beginning the first pasuk? Vayedaber Hashem el Moshe acharei mos u'vnei Aharon hakorvam lifnei Hashem vayamusu. Why is that pasuk right there? So, some chazal say that it is because Yom Kippur is a beautiful day of kaparah beautiful day of kaparah selichah, mechilah, kaparah it wipes the slate clean. But what happens if klal Yisrael does not do teshuvah properly? So then there is another way to wipe the slate clean and that is misas tzaddikim. And that is the reason that it's mentioned at the very beginning because mentioned at the very beginning because if we're ushering in a se- seder to tell you every aspect of that which is included the embodiment of Yom Kippur which is a free gift given on a silver platter that we can achieve that like it never happened the the all the negativity and the aveiros it's wiped clean. it's wiped clean. The chazal show them it's not wiped clean then the misas tzaddikim wipe it clean. And that's why there are so many stories replete with the fact that tzaddikim saw an impending disaster for klal Yisrael and le ma'aseh it didn't end up happening but there were two big tzaddikim who were niftar. And that's the way the generation was

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1. 0:02Good evening. This week's parsha is parshas acharei mos and kedoshim, a double parsha once again.…
2. 4:41one day of the year. Why does the pasuk have to tell us that? So some…
3. 9:26a korban that they thought was fitting. The third reason was that they walked into the…
4. 14:12Kodashim, he took the biggudim off and look at Rashi he was never vihinicham sham, he…
5. 19:23Yom Kippur is Kodesh Kodashim. And I mentioned to you the Shulchan Aruch asked his talmidim…
6. 24:02And we have to know and that's the answer some of fortune give why we read…
7. 31:12Parshas Acharei, there's a mitzvah there's it's chock-full of mitzvahs both Acharei Mos and Kedoshim. And…
8. 36:22One was a sa'ir lashem, that was a korban, it was brought as a korban, and…
9. 41:04lights and puts the coffee up for the people in the freezing cold to come in…
10. 45:47But Rebbi Akiva holds that the one that owns it and that has it to save…

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