Newly recorded mamer on Achrei

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The Cohen has to be married since the wife represents the receptical to the light. ביתו זו אשתו A wife represents the divine revelation in the home, in Hashem's house, here.

So Nadav and Avihu, not being married, lacked this receptical. Also, מרחוק ה׳ נראה לי "Hashem appears from afar" and ותתצב אחותו מרחוק "the sister (wisdom, that you call to your sister) stood from afar" so there sin was בקרבתם in their drawing close.

The opinion that they were מחוסרי בגדים lacking the proper clothing to enter the holy of holies also connotes this idea of lacking the proper vessel or "garment" to receive the revelation.

The opinion that they went in drunk can be understood in the context of grapes being the tree of knowledge and that Chava pressed the grapes directly for Adam, (implying, without a receptical) ששחטה לו אשקול של ענבים while with Noach, when he got drunk it says וישכר ויתגל that he was "revealed" i.e. with out a receptical.

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