Bahaalotecha - Shave Behave | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Center uh founders Souli and Pauline Assa in loving memory of his grandfather Yakben Sah and his father Ysef Ben Najla Rabai. I want to share with you a fascinating swirling spiraling Torah and it's one that maybe I have not yet dug to the bottom of the uh of the pit yet myself uh but I wanted to share with you uh using this opportunity. with you uh using this opportunity. So let's begin. uh we know in the story of the appointing of the levim which happens as well in this week's para so we read about the fact that the leim had their hair shaved in fact this is going to play a pivotal role in the story of Korak where Korak's wife is making fun of him that he's had his his body shaved his his body shaved and the commentators ask what is the reason why the was shaving their hair for the service of the of the temple. Why was that a requirement? Why was shaving their hair anything relevant to the kadusha or or or or so on of the of their job? So, there's many different answers. I want to share with you one answer which really stuck out to me because of the thought process uh and the kush that maybe comes out of it. maybe comes out of it. So our rabbis tell us that part of the reason why the levime shaved was because when did the levim get elevated to the position that they were in? In the aftermath of the story of the egg mosher said you have the rebels trying to pull is uh into Abu Dar. They so to speak went to war and in the war some of these

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