57 passages in Rabbinic Midrash
Individual passages from Sifra (Torat Kohanim), shown in source order. Page 2 of 2.
Fire had just leapt from before the Holy One and devoured the two eldest sons of Aaron, Nadav and Avihu, who drew near with a strange offering. They lay where the flame had taken t...
Hear this teaching, and learn that nothing in creation was made to stand empty of holiness. Even the donkey, that unclean beast, carries a commandment upon its back, for its firstl...
On the day the Mishkan was consecrated, fire leapt from before the Holy One and devoured Nadav and Avihu, the two eldest sons of Aaron. The dwelling-place of glory had become, in a...
When Aaron was consecrated and the Mishkan stood newly raised, the Sages looked closely at the offerings and found a hidden balance written into the fire itself. Consider the burnt...
Strange fire had risen, and two of Aaron's sons, Nadav and Avihu, lay still before the Holy One, having drawn near to that Presence against His will. Flame had gone out and met the...
When fire had consumed Aaron's two eldest, Moses turned to Aaron and to his surviving sons, Elazar and Ithamar, and laid upon them a hard commandment. Let no hair grow wild, he tol...
On the day the priesthood was sworn in, when the Mishkan stood new and the smoke of the first offerings climbed toward heaven, there was a gesture the Torah will not let us pass ov...
Watch the words of the verse, the sages teach, and you will find them turned about. Scripture says that Aaron lifted his hands to the people and blessed them, and then came down fr...
When the fire took hold of the altar and the smoke of the investiture offering rose straight upward, the Sages listened to a single phrase tucked into the verse: they are a miluim ...
