Shemini〚 Fire, Food, or Fabrication 〛Torah Pearls

In this week’s Torah Pearls, Ross, Jono, and Ezra return to the Tabernacle where things heat up—literally. We explore the dramatic theophany at the altar, the strange death of Nadab and Abihu, and the priestly logic that seems more bureaucratic than divine. Did God really command these things? And if so, where’s the record?

We compare multiple texts describing the same event from different angles, examine whether holiness (or uncleanness) is contagious, and ask if Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 are really saying the same thing about diet. Plus, did God ever want sacrifices at all—or was it the “lying pen of the scribes”? Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and even a few Dead Sea Scrolls weigh in.

Come for the strange fire—stay for the sacred tension.

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