Weekly Parsha Thoughts

Shemini

The pessukim mention that Moshe Rabbeinu wondered why the sin-offering was burnt and not eaten. He got upset at the sons of Aharon and questioned why they did not eat it. Rashi explains Moshe was actually upset at Aharon, however for the...
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Purim

The Gemara brings, a person who enters to measure his granary says a beracha, “It shall be the will of Hashem my G-d and the G-d of my father that He shall send beracha in this pile of grain.” If he first...
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Vayikra

[print-me The passuk states “נפש כי תמעל מעל וחטאה בשגגה מקדשי ה’, a person who will be mo’el and sin by accident from the holies of Hashem.” What does it mean to be mo’el? Rashi explains wherever it says the lashon מעילה...
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Pekudei

The passuk states “ובהעלות הענן מעל המשכן יסעו בני ישראל, when the cloud ascended from upon the Mishkon, Bnei Yisrael would travel.” The Seforno says the Shechinah was permanent by the Mishkon and did not leave at all until Yisrael needed to...
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Vayakhel

The passuk states “ויבאו כל איש אשר נשאו לבו וכל אשר נדבה רוחו אתו הביאו את תרומת ה’.” Who are the נשאו לבו and נדבה רוחו? Onkelos translates נשאו לבו as “his heart had interest.” The Nefesh HaGer says, this is the...
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Ki Sisa

Hashem sanctified the first-borns of Bnei Yisrael in Mitzrayim when He smote the first-born Mitzri’im and saved the first born of Yisrael. After Bnei Yisrael sinned by the golden calf, Hashem separated the Levi’im from Bnei Yisrael, elevated them, and sanctified them...
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