The Torah lesson for this week is about skin diseases: tzara’at, but as we’ll see, this external condition is really a sign of an internal moral condition. Question: What does TAZRIA mean in English? She conceives or bearing seedLeviticus 12:1 And יהוה spoke to Moses saying, 2 Speak to the Children of Israel saying, If a woman has conceived and …
Shemini (Eighth)
Leviticus 9:1 It came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. C-MATS Question: The Hebrew word (It came) always indicates that trouble or grief is associated with the narrative. What sadness could there have been on that joyous first day of Nissan? Until the sin of the Golden Calf, …
TZAV (command)
Leviticus 6:8 And יהוה spoke to Moses saying, 9 Command אֶת־ Aaron וְאֶת־ and his sons saying, זֹאת This is the Torah (law) of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because it will be burning upon the altar all night until morning, in this way the fire of the altar will be kept burning. C-MATS Question: How was …
BEHAR (on the mountain)
Leviticus 25:5 את That which grows of itself from the seeds of your previous harvest you will not reap, וְאת־ and neither gather the grapes of your untended vine: for it is a year of rest for the land. C-MATS Question: Why did יהוה set up the Sabbatical Year cycle? The land’s rest in the seventh year teaches that the …
KEDOSHIM (set apart ones)
Leviticus 19:1 And יהוה spoke to Moses saying, 2 Speak to all the congregation of the Children of Israel וְאמַרְת and you say to them, you will be holy (set apart): for I יהוה your Elohim am Holy (set apart). C-MATS Question: What was יהוה teaching his children? The Ten Commandments found in Exodus 20 were being taught again. 1) …