You Spoke About Someone—You Spilled Rivers of Blood

The Daily Chizuk from our teacher, the holy tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – Parshat Tazria-Metzora • Why does the Torah leave the subject of Nadav and Avihu in the middle and begin to deal with the matters of 'Tazria-Metzora'?

Thursday, 3 Iyar 5785 – "You spoke about someone and spilled rivers of blood," these are his holy words:

It is written in all the holy books, in the Noam Elimelech, that suddenly in the middle (of the parsha), Shuvu Banim inserted 'Tazria-Metzora' in the middle of the parsha!

You are talking about Nadav and Avihu, we want to know what happened to them, and suddenly we switch to 'Tazria-Metzora'. There is tzara'at here, tzara'at there, tzara'at on the head, tzara'at on the shoulder.

Who did this? Even today I have questions.

They slaughter the bird and place it into the blood - what is inside the blood?

These are the moments when you spoke about someone and spilled rivers of blood. They say to him, how much blood did you spill when you spoke about one person!

You said: Yes, like that, right. You shouldn't talk about him at all, we're done - you made a river of blood, a river of blood you made.

And people distance themselves from him, you don't notice, but people distance themselves - a river of blood.

So one must take the bird and immerse it into the blood. And then, after they tell us about all the types of tzara'at in the world, we return once again to the story.

Those who Nadav and Avihu wanted to be burned, Nadav and Avihu knew they would be burned, it is written here that they knew they would be burned - but here it was actually forbidden for them to be burned!

Here it was forbidden for them to be burned, because Moshe and Aharon did not agree to it.

They did it without the knowledge of Moshe and Aharon, so they came again as Elijah the Prophet. But, what they merited was that they were reincarnated into Elijah the Prophet and he brought down fire from heaven.

This fire that needed to descend now and they did not succeed in bringing it down, Aharon brought it down.

Specifically Aharon brought it down; after Aharon made the Golden Calf, he brought down this fire. But they merited to come as Elijah the Prophet and bring down fire from heaven.

And this is the revelation of the Shechinah that we speak of at the Seder night.

May we merit the revelation of the Shechinah and the building of the Holy Temple speedily in our days, Amen.