I Once Watched a Soul Leave a Body

It wasn’t in a hospital. It wasn’t at a funeral. It was in the eyes of a man sitting across from me—eyes that once danced with life, now staring past me into nothingness. He had tasted something so high, so intoxicatingly Divine, that he forgot how to come back. That’s the danger of spiritual fire. […]

The Fire That Flew Too High

They were the sons of Aharon. Raised in the inner chambers of holiness. Trained to serve in the Mishkan. Witnesses to the glory of Sinai. And yet, the Torah tells us twice in one verse that “they died.” “After the death of Aharon’s two sons, when they drew close before G-d, and they died.” (Vayikra […]