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Rabbi Binny Freedman is a highly engaging and inspirational educator who has a gift for synthesizing difficult, sophisticated material in a way that inspires both the novice and the scholar. His proficiency in applying classic Jewish concepts to contemporary life in a personal and meaningful way has made him a sought after speaker throughout North America and around the world.Rav Binny addresses his audience from isolation in Eretz Yisroel with a brief powerful reading and interpretation of how the ecstatic joyof the Mishkan's inaugural led to the tragic deaths of Aharon's children, Nadav and Avihu.Rabbi Freedman evinces the master teacher's tools in explaining key Hebrew terms and verb usage on display in the section,\u05d5\u05d9\u05d1\u05d0 \u05d5\u05d9\u05e6\u05d0\u05d5 \u05d5\u05d9\u05e8\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d5\u05d9\u05e4\u05dc\u05d5 \u05e2\u05dc \u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05ddwhile pointing out the use of identical phraseology from Moshe and Aharon's successful bringing down of Shechinah to Nadav and Avihu's terrible error\u05d5\u05b7\u05ea\u05b5\u05bc\u05a4\u05e6\u05b5\u05d0 \u05d0\u05b5\u05e9\u05c1\u0599 \u05de\u05b4\u05dc\u05b4\u05bc\u05e4\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05a3\u05d9 \u05d4 \u05d5\u05b7\u05ea\u05b9\u05bc\u05a8\u05d0\u05db\u05b7\u05dc\u0599He peppers the parshanus with cogent insight culled from Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveichick, and even Kirk Douglas.The lecture is permeated with Jewish wedding imagery that Rav Binny uses as a metaphor for understanding when to exhibit restraint on your individual passions when they threaten to compete and blunt the communal state already in progress.The onus of disciplining oneself is crucial to leadership, as Rav Binny illustrates from a humbling experience he suffered in military preparedness due to unbridled feeling.As models for constraint, he offers Yosef HaTzadik and Moshe Rabbeinu and underscores the sequence in the Rambam's Hilchos Deos that deals with the destructive consequences of not marshaling anger.He suggests that the laws of Kashrus which are introduced in the parshah immediately after the events of Yom HaSmini, thematically relate to the call for curtailing one's appetite for self fulfillment.Especially for those in Eretz Yisroel, this reading serves as a reminder of how to keep the emotional celebrations of Yom HaShoah,Yom HaZikoron,and Yom HaAtzmaut in check, allowing the Yeridas Ha Eish of the Korbon Tzibur to burn properly without any misfortune.We thank the Orayta Yeshivah for the use of this material-Check out more Shiurim and information on their websitehttps://www.orayta.org/Please leave us a review or comment at ravkiv@gmail.comfor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate