Beis Vaad L'Chachamim

This is from a pre-internet journal I used to keep.  The Se’ir Rosh Chodesh of Aharon.  (5759-1999) Dr. Krinsky asked me, how is it possible...

Moshe Rabbeinu angrily criticized Aharon and his sons for burning the Chatas of Rosh Chodesh Nissan, which, he thought, Hashem had specifica...

Moshe told Aharon that Nadav and Avihu were chosen because they were greater than them. Aharon heard what Moshe said and was comforted.  On ...

Reminder. These are not tests to see how much people know. Just knowing the answer is not useful here.  The answers require proof from speci...

In Pekudei when they finished the keilim and in Shemini when the kehuna was handed over to Aharon, Moshe gave them the bracha. Shemos 39:43 ...

 When Nadav and Avihu died, their bodies lay in the Mishkan, according to Rabbi Akiva.  The law of Tumas Ohalim should have applied. Therefo...

Reb Moshe in the Darash derives important יסודות from the יתדות, a lesson from these alternative methods of keeping the יריעות, the fabric a...

  We brought Rashi's alternative explanations of what kept the Mishkan covers from being blown about by the wind and from sagging into t...

  What kept the roof of the Mishkan, the יריעות, from sagging in middle, or flapping in the desert wind? Fabric or leather of that great an ...

I saw the following in a Parsha publication "Likutei Peshatim," produced by the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois, u...

Sanhedrin 52a וכבר היו משה ואהרן מהלכין בדרך ונדב ואביהוא מהלכין אחריהן וכל ישראל אחריהן אמר לו נדב לאביהוא אימתי ימותו שני זקנים הללו ואנ...

מבשרם לא תאכלו ובנבלתם לא תגעו טמאים הם לכם The passuk seems to warn us to not touch a neveila, because it will make us Tamei.  This cann...