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Razbag 5785 / Parashat Tetazveh/ פרשת תְּרוּמָה/ for 5785

The death of Nadav and Abihu is discussed in my father's book, Legal Friction and is also a published article "THE NAKED TRUTH CONCERNING THE DEATHS OF NADAB AND ABIHU “ in Revue Biblique vol 121, where he discusses Philo of Alexandria's interpretation regarding the unusual death of Aron's sons. Most commonly cited in a list of their sins, Philo does not consider their entrance in their birthday suit as a sin, but a virtue. As my father writes “Whereas Philo regarded their conduct favorably, my analysis suggests that the author implies that they were violating biblical laws.” Philo Legal allegories 2:56 On this account the high priest "will not come into the holy of holies clad in a garment reaching to the feet; [Leviticus 16:1] but having put off the robe of opinion and vain fancy of the soul, and having left that for those who love the things which are without, and who honor opinion in preference to truth, will come forward naked, without colors or any sounds, to make an offering of the blood of the soul, and to sacrifice the whole mind to God the Savior and Benefactor; (Leg. 2:57 ) and certainly Nadab and Abihu, [Leviticus 10:1] who came near to God, and left this mortal life and received a share of immortal life, are seen to be naked, that is, free from all new and mortal opinion; for they would not have carried it in their garments and borne it about, if they had not been naked, having broken to pieces every bond of passion and of corporeal necessity, in order that their nakedness and absence of corporeality might not be adulterated by the accession of atheistic reasoning; for it may not be permitted to all men to behold the secret mysteries of God, but only to those who are able to cover them up and guard them; END QUOTE I might add that even Philo must have considered the notion of being naked to be allegorical because Elzaphan and Uziel were forewarned by Moses to remove the corpse from the holy of holies and only touch the tunics that they were wearing. In other words, Philo never meant that they were naked, but that being naked is a virtue of vacating your mind of preconceived mortal notions, and allowing immortal notions to take over the intellect. As my father writes “ QUOTE Philo regards the nakedness of Nadab and Abihu in the tabernacle as commendable, reflecting an attempt by Nadab and Abihu to remove the irrationality which their tunics represented. As Kirschner explains, the “incineration of the bodies of Nadab and Abihu is construed by Philo as an act of divine exaltation.”8 END QUOTE “ Might I add further that it would be reasonable to suggest that they were likely wearing clothes because only a few versed before they die, the verse describes , Leviticus 9,9 that they performed tabernacle functions “Aaron sons brought the blood to him” indicating that they must have been wearing standard priestly vestments. I have many times pointed out that the death of nadav and avihu is a huge theme that is foreshadowed many times before their demise. Another foreshadowing in the spirit of philo's interpretation is in Parashat Tezaveh, 28 verse 1 וְאַתָּ֡ה הַקְרֵ֣ב אֵלֶ֩יךָ֩ אֶת־אַהֲרֹ֨ן אָחִ֜יךָ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֣יו אִתּ֗וֹ מִתּ֛וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְכַהֲנוֹ־לִ֑י אַהֲרֹ֕ן נָדָ֧ב וַאֲבִיה֛וּא אֶלְעָזָ֥ר וְאִיתָמָ֖ר בְּנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹֽן׃ You shall bring forward your brother Aaron, with his sons, from among the Israelites, to serve Me as priests: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ בִגְדֵי־קֹ֖דֶשׁ לְאַהֲרֹ֣ן אָחִ֑יךָ לְכָב֖וֹד וּלְתִפְאָֽרֶת׃ Make sacral vestments for your brother Aaron, for dignity and adornment. The first strange language is "you should bring your brother Aaron with his sons" is the actual translation but the literal translation is “you should bring as an offering your brother and his son's.” Immediately following that verse is the content of the parasha, the priestly clothing, “make sacral vestments for your brother for kavod and tifaret. The proximity of the strange language suggesting Aaron's sons being sacrificed and the commandment to make and then wear priestly garments supports a more literal interpretation of Philo's tradition. My father links the nakedness of nadav and avihu to the nakedness of Adam and eve. Meaning that they were trying to achieve an intellectual state of pre-primal sin, and that may have been an intended symbolism on part of philio, and that directly links to the word boshess, linking the sin of the golden calf to the nakedness of Adam and eve. I think that the message is quite profound. They had discovered symbolism, which is meaningful to those who understand and appreciate the symbols, but that is in direct contrast to the divine imperatives. Wear these clothes in this place under these circumstances and follow the rules. Their anti-nomian exuberance is a generational delight and a generational thorn. One of the many other list of sins of nadav and avihu is that they did not father children. All in the same token