This week’s reading begins with the ‘opening day’ of the “Mishkan’: the portable Holy Temple that accompanied the Jews for forty years in the desert. The Lubavitcher Rebbe says that this should make us remember the Two destroyed Temples, regret their loss, and yearn for the Moshiach who will build the third and final Temple. But it probably doesn’t. And paradoxically our section gives us a good reason why not. It tells us that on this auspicious ‘opening’ day, Nadav and Avihu, the two eldest sons of Aaron the High Priest, became so filled with this yearning that they rushed into the Holy of Holies and killed; punished by Divine Fire (!!); Not very encouraging • Read More