“Adonai said to Moshe, “Tell Aharon, ‘None of your descendants who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.  No one with a defect may approach — no one blind, lame, with a mutilated face or a limb too long, a broken foot or a broken arm, a hunched back, stunted […]

“The high priest—the one whose head has been anointed with the anointing oil and who is ordained to dress in the priestly clothing—must not dishevel his hair or tear his clothing. He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself UNCLEAN even for his father or mother.” –Leviticus 21:10-11 From verse 10 […]

Let’s step back and take a little breather to put some things in perspective and make some connections. At this stage in our Torah studies, you should have a fairly strong understanding of just how HOLY the God of Israel is and that He will exercise any measure necessary at any cost to protect His […]

“The daughter of a priest who profanes herself by prostitution (ZONAH) profanes her father; she is to be put to death by fire.”-Leviticus 21:9 We have seen so far that the priests were held to a higher standard than the common population. Here are four rules we’ve studied so far that applied ONLY to priests. -Cannot […]

“They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.”-Leviticus 21:7 What we notice about Leviticus 21:7 is that the same law that prevented a priest from marrying a woman who was degraded by […]