Parshas Acharei (Rebroadcast)
The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
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The Importance of God's Influence on the Land of Israel
This is a grave desecration of god's name, as the verse continues to say. The ramban another very long essay here, and he proves conclusively no, that this was actually a way of killing the child. This was infanticide. You kill the child, you pa pass and forth over the fire until they die. They would actually have a band playing music so that the father would not hear the shrieks of his son or his daughter being killed in this heinous, horrific, brutal way. It's kind of stunning to us, the devotion people would have to idolatry. What they would even do to the idol to kill their own child, just so unimaginable
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