“The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a shiny spot on their skin that may be a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.’”-Leviticus 13:1-2 The Hebrew word for “skin disease” is TZARA’AT. However, the majority of English Bible translations […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter Thirteen. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Bible, click here. Leviticus chapters 13 and 14 deals with the ritual impurity that results from skin diseases. What’s interesting is that these chapters also deal with the impurity that results from “skin diseases” on non-living things like […]

The whole purpose of the Torah is to break down infinite spiritual principles into nice bite-sized easy-to-digest chunks. In our study of Leviticus chapter 12, we studied the carefully orchestrated 3-step process of how a new mother is brought back from her state of uncleanness to cleanness and then finally restored to a state of […]

“When the days of her purification are over, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring a lamb in its first year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or dove for a sin offering to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the cohen.  He will offer it before Adonai and […]

“When the days of her purification are over, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring a lamb in its first year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or dove for a sin offering to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the cohen.” -Leviticus 12:6 We are in […]