We are now in that part of the Bible dealing with the Lord’s commands concerning food and what God has deemed fit for His people to eat or not to eat. Before getting into the text, as with many of my other teachings, there are a couple of fundamental Biblical realities I need to make […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 11. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here.  “For I am Adonai, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God.  Therefore you are to be holy, because I am holy.“-Leviticus 11:45 From today we’re going to be getting […]

“Aharon answered Moshe, ‘Even though they offered their sin offering and burnt offering today, things like these have happened to me! If I had eaten the purification offering today, would it have pleased Adonai?‘ On hearing this reply, Moshe was satisfied.”-Leviticus 10:19-20 In verses 18-20, we encounter a somewhat difficult to understand exchange between Moses and Aaron. […]

“Then Moshe carefully investigated what had happened to the goat of the sin offering and discovered that it had been burned up. He became angry with El‘azar and Itamar, the remaining sons of Aharon, and asked, ‘Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the area of the sanctuary, since it is especially holy? He gave […]

“Adonai said to Aharon, ‘Don’t drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, neither you nor your sons with you, when you enter the tent of meeting, so that you will not die. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations, so that you will distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean […]