Parshas Emor By Blimi Olen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In parshas<\/em> emor<\/em>, the kohanim<\/em> are warned not to become tamei<\/em>, impure, from a dead person, except for their seven closest relatives. A kohein<\/em> gadol<\/em>, the highest priest, is not allowed to become tamei<\/em>, even for his seven closest relatives. The pasuk<\/em> that says this is as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u05d5\u05e2\u05dc \u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05e4\u05e9\u05ea \u05de\u05ea \u05dc\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d0 \u05dc\u05d0\u05d1\u05d9\u05d5 \u05d5\u05dc\u05d0\u05de\u05d5 \u05dc\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d8\u05de\u05d0<\/p>\n\n\n\n And he should not come upon any dead person, for his\nfather and his mother he should not become impure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you notice anything unusual about the words in this pasuk<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hint: it has to do with the last letter in each word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You got it! Every two words end with the same letter: the first\ntwo words end with ,\u05dc the\nnext two end with,\u05ea the next two with,\u05d0 the next two with ,\u05d5 and the last\ntwo with \u05d0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why so many sets of two<\/em> in this pasuk<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A kohein<\/em> becomes tamei<\/em>, impure, from a certain\namount of blood of a dead person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sets of two in this pasuk<\/em> hint to us that a kohein<\/em>\nbecomes tamei<\/em> even if that amount of blood comes from two<\/em> dead\npeople combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Isn\u2019t it amazing that besides for what the words of the Torah\nactually mean, the way they are written also hints at its laws!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parshas Emor By Blimi Olen In parshas emor, the kohanim are warned not to become tamei, impure, from a dead person, except for their seven closest relatives. A kohein gadol, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,9],"tags":[735,734],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vayikra","category-weekly-torah-portion","tag-parshasemor","tag-sefervayikra"],"yoast_head":"\n