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Shemini: Unbridled Love Kills… But So Does Overbearing Discipline
Ahava v’yira — love and discipline. These indispensable, complementary traits can be compared to the ‘’double helix,’’ the stuff of life of healthy Yiddishkeit. The dire consequence if either one is lacking comes to light from an inter-textual parallelism between the parsha and haftorah.