# 2747 The Spreading Firestorm

Last year on Monday evening April 15 2019, the news broke of the

massive fire that almost consumed Notre Dame, the large cathedral in

Paris. The fire took place, very close to the Place de Grève, the

site where 777 years ago, the burning of the Talmud occurred. It was

last year during the week before Pesach, and on that Monday morning

we read Parshas Acharei Mos. We mentioned then the death of Aharon’s

two sons, when they drew near before Hashem, and they died by fire

because they offered a strange unordered fire on the mizbeach .

Tragically as that was, it concurred during the inauguration of the

redeeming and life giving Mishkan, that gave us the presence of

the Shechina. As mentioned above, the Torah will demand sacrifice,

but at the same time it is Toras Chaim, or the giver of life.

However,

Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is to avoid making any such

connections and links with events of the past, as we may not be

accurate

at all.

Rabbi

Bartfeld as advised by Horav Shlomo Miller and

Horav Aharon Miller

Shlit’a