Parsha Illuminated - Shemini: To Soar, We Need Wings

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

So para illuminated for parasi and I want to work a little bit out of order in the para today because I want to begin right in the middle of the Torah. So we have in this week's parha chapter 10 verse 16 It's the middle of an episode that uh is It's the middle of an episode that uh is actually kind of complicated regarding offerings that were brought on the day of the inauguration of the Mishkan Roesh Nissan. And there was a question as to which offerings the Kohanim were allowed to consume. They as we'll discuss later um the two sons of Aron Hakoen two sons of Aon not die in this week's para which puts Aron into the status of an onain it's the day that uh that his sons have it's the day that uh that his sons have died and there are certain restrictions on an onain and therefore there are he's not supposed to eat from the carbonos from the offerings except for some exceptions and there's some question over to what is included in those exceptions. And that leads us into this verse where it says Moshe went looking for this sin offering, this goat, and it had been um offering, this goat, and it had been um burned. And Moshe was not happy about that because he thought it was supposed to be eaten by the kohanim and not burnt. But we're really not going to focus on the story. I want to draw your attention to a gimmar in Kushing which says as follows. The second source in the source she says nikru reon him sofim. For the following reason, the early sages were called sofim, which means we usually think of it as someone who writes, but also means

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1. 0:03So para illuminated for parasi and I want to work a little bit out of order…
2. 3:42middle of the Torah? Now I'll just mention there's the that the mid teaches us and…
3. 7:51be at the end of a line in order to teach you that if you think…
4. 12:00day Moshe calls to his children, his sons and the elders of Israel. He says to…
5. 16:12Why does Moshe summon the elders of Israel? Here, if you go back to verse one…
6. 20:20people have this from the beginning and but Aaron doesn't? Right. The question in the mid…
7. 24:25God did not command them to make a calf in order to h house his presence…
8. 28:32different things, different explanations for what what it was. But they came to this conclusion on…
9. 32:45participated. He he should have found another another way out, but that's all that he needs…
10. 36:54and therefore that's the Rabaka gives the metaphor of the bird that uh in this context…

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