parsha bit: Sh'mini

[cellio]

Moshe and Aharon once walked along, with Nadav and Avihu behind them, and all Israel following in the rear. Then Nadav said to Avihu: "Oh that these old men might die, so that you and I should be the leaders of our generation". But the Holy One, blessed be He, said unto them: "We shall see who will bury whom". Rav Papa said: "Thus men say: Many an old camel is laden with the hides of younger ones". (Sanhedrin 52a)

Comments

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten about that part, but not the follow-up. Sometimes foreshadowing in the Torah can be very dark indeed.

Curiously, the first page of search results on Google for "strange fire" yields links to Christian interpretations interspersed with the Indigo Girls.