Volozhin and Kropotkin: A Misfit Torah Newsletter

Volozhin and Kropotkin: A Misfit Torah Newsletter

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Parshas Behaaloscha: On Novelty and Routine

Parshas Behaaloscha: On Novelty and Routine

Why Weddings Should be The Worst Day of Your Marriage

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(This was the standard wedding devar torah I gave when my friends got married, adjusted for this audience and my current thinking)

So the parsha starts with Aharon receiving a command to light the menorah, and then it says ויעש כן אהרן, “And Aharon did so”

Rashi, sensitive to seemingly extraneous information in the text presumably wonders why it needs to …

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