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Speechless
When a day of glory turns into a day of unspeakable loss, there is only one reaction for the religious Jew
In the face of unthinkable tragedy, the Torah relates, “Vayidom Aharon and Aharon became speechless.”
Aharon did not become merely silent, for silence implies that a person has words but chooses not to express them. Vayidom implies becoming mute, meaning that the person has lost the power of speech. The Hebrew word vayidom shares a root with “domeim,” which is an inanimate object such as a rock. Vayidom signifies the diminishment of man from the highest form of existence a medaber, a speaking creation to the lowest form of existence, a domeim.