Beha'alotchaבהעלותך

Rashi at the beginning of Parshat Behaalotcha quotes the Midrash, “Why is the Menorah story immediately after the story of the gifts of the princes to the Tabernacle? Aaron, the high priest, upon seeing the gifts of the princes became faint…

A group of enthusiastic observant Jews who were “Tamey Mes” (defiled from contact with the dead) approached Moshe and Aaron and asked if they could participate in the Pesach sacrifice. Having just studied in last week’s Parsha about the sen…