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Parsha Plus — Emor 5783

Выпуск: Parsha Plus — Emor 5783. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Eisikovits eisikovits1@gmail.com 2 The Priest Does Not Perform ‘Last Rites’ in Judaism Parshas Emor Rabbi Yissocher Frand Parshas Emor begins with the admonition to the Kohanim not to come into contact—or even to be in the same room—with a dead person, with the exception of his seven immediate blood relatives. The priest administers the “Last Rites.” When a person is on his deathbed, or even after a person has expired, the priest will inevitably be summoned to administer these “Last Rites.” The theory behind this religious ritual is that somehow the priest can get the dying or deceased individual into Heaven. If someone has this ceremony performed upon him he is, so to speak, “guaranteed to be a son of the World-to-Come.” This means that a person could have lived a life of sin, but as long as he receives the Last Rites, he does not need to worry about “burning in eternal damnation.” In Judaism, there is no religious functionary who can get anyone intoGan Edenor Olam HaBah – neither a Ravnor a Kohen. That is why the Torah placed this fence and obstacle between Kehunah and Tumas HaMes – in order that no one should think that when the time comes, “he’ll get me in.” The Symbolism of Showing the Show Bread I found the following thought in the sefer Imrei Baruch from Rabbi Baruch Simon (a rebbe in Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanon, Yeshiva University). The Gemara states (Chagiga 26b) that at the end of the three Pilgrimage Festivals when Jews came from all of Eretz Yisrael to the Beis HaMikdash, when they were about to leave, the Kohanim lifted the Shulchan to show the Lechem HaPanim to those who came up for the Regalim. When they showed the Lechem HaPanim, the Kohanim would say, “See how precious you are before the Almighty – the Lechem HaPanim is still as fresh and warm now when we’re removing it from the Shulchan, a week after being baked, as it was when it was first placed on the Shulchan.” This was a great miracle that occurred week after week with the Lechem HaPanim. The Blasphemer was thus the product of this illicit union between the Egyptian taskmaster (who Moshe kills and buries, in Shemos 2:12) and the wife of the Jew who we find being beaten in Shemos 2:11, who is identified here in Parshas Emor as Shlomis bas Divree. Rashi c

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Parsha Plus

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5 мая 2023 г.

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