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Shemini 5781 – Vayidom Aharon: Learning to Live With the Unimaginable

Introduction

Aharon’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, make a tragic mistake during the inauguration of the mishkan and it costs them their lives. When Moshe attempts to console Aharon, the Torah reports that Aharon was silent. How do we interpret this reaction? What was contained within this silence?

Sources: Vayikra 10:3, Vayikra 10:16-20, Shemot 4:14-17, Breishit 18:25, Breishit 37:35, Shemot 32:11, Yechezkel 24:17

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Rabbi Michael Emerson – Faculty and Host for Pardes from Jerusalem
Rabbi Adam Titcher – Lead Consultant and Producer
Arlene Harel – Faculty Coordinator

Michael Emerson

Rabbi Michael Emerson is Director of Special Projects at Pardes. Raised in Memphis, TN, he graduated from Columbia University and completed a Master’s Degree in Education and Jewish Studies at NYU. Michael received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholar alumnus.

Michael made aliyah from Columbus, Ohio, where he served as Program Director of the Wexner Service Corps, a service-learning fellowship for Jewish teens. He has taught Tanakh at SAR High School and at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. Michael lives in Israel with his wife, Dr. Adina Bitton, and their four children.

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