{"id":2830,"date":"2025-04-27T07:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2025-04-27T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:58:39","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parshashmini-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha\u201cShmini\u201d from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha &#8220;Shmini,&#8221; Leviticus chapters 9 through 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat (Friday evening) reading begins with the story of the &#8220;eighth [shmini] day&#8221; and the events leading to the deaths of Aaron&#8217;s two eldest sons. And it completes with the instruction of what is &#8220;food,&#8221; and what is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The confluence certainly suggests there is a connection, regardless of what we may have been told by many who, <em>&#8220;by your traditions, make the commandments of YHVH of no effect.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SSM-4-25-25-Shmini-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As seems to be so often the case, the Torah portion story this week has a relevance to current events that demonstrates the timelessness of the message, as the lawless claim that &#8220;no one is above the law,&#8221; has become a sick joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark notes that there has been much discussion over the centuries of why &#8220;Aaron kept his peace,&#8221; or remained silent, after the death of his two oldest sons, Nadab and Abihu. One of the explanations might be that he realized, after the &#8216;golden calf,&#8217; that he, himself, had arguably deserved, but been spared, a similar fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why those two? What did they really do? Even though Scripture explicitly tells us, questions remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, <em>&#8220;to whom much is given, much is expected.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shmini: &#8220;No One is Above the Law. And they Knew, or Should Have Known.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WT-CooH-4-26-25-Shmini-NO-One-is-Above-the-Law-Knew-or-Should-Have-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parshashmini-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\">two-part reading and Sabbath midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2025 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Shmini&#8221; (Leviticus chapters 9-11) and related connections. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,24,151,11,12],"tags":[358,88,963,1824,1770,570,104,357,1647,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}