Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 15. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. Leviticus Chapter 15 represents the last of a series of five chapters dealing with matters of CLEAN & UNCLEAN and ritual purity and impurity. Leviticus chapters 11-15 are all preparation for the next chapter, Leviticus Chapter […]

One of the key ways to determine whether TZARA-AT (skin disease) had manifested itself or not on houses was simply to see how large the discolored area on the wall was. The infected area, whether on a human or a wall, was called a NEGA in Hebrew. The basic rule of thumb was that if the […]

“To purify the house, he is to take two birds, cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop leaves. He is to slaughter one of the birds in a clay pot over running water. He is to take the cedar-wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and […]

“Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon, ‘When you have entered the land of Canaan which I am giving you as a possession, and I put an infection of tzara‘at in a house in the land that you possess,  then the owner of the house is to come and tell the cohen, ‘It seems to me that there may be an infection in […]

When studying the Scriptural history of the Israelites, it’s important to remind ourselves that they were no different than you and me. They were just people. True, they were a set apart people elected to serve God, but still just people nonetheless, who went through the normal day-to-day struggles, temptations, and worries we all experience. […]