Table for Five: Acharei-Kedoshim
One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist
And the Lord said to Moses: Speak to your brother Aaron, that he should not come at will into the Holy behind the dividing curtain, in front of the cover that is upon the ark, lest he die, for I appear in the cloud over the ark cover. Lev. 16:2
Rabbi Elchanan Shoff
Beis Knesses of Los Angeles
Do not just come sauntering into the Holy, behind the curtain. One may not be cavalier about how to serve God. When Aaron’s sons did so, barging into the Holiest of places in a moment of inspiration and passion driven by youthful idealism, they paid with their lives.