From the Chassidic Masters

With so many "firsts" associated with this day, why does the Torah refer to it -- and by extention, to the entire Parshah -- as "the eighth day"?

The tragic death of Aaron’s two elder sons, Nadav and Avihu; the soul as a striving and as a settling, life as a cycle and as a spiral.

Moses and Aaron disagree: truth confronts benevolence, temporality challenges eternity, and absolutism concedes to conditionality.

The spiritual significance of shechitah; the laws of kashrut applied to the beast, bird and fish within the soul of man

A person may choose to "play it safe" and avoid anything touched by controversy, risk, or the possibility of failure; or he can choose the liquid life