YHVH said to Moshe, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aharon; tell them: ‘No priest is to make himself unclean for any of his people who dies, except for his close relatives — his mother, father, son, daughter and brother; he may also make himself unclean for his virgin sister who has never married and […]

How did death and decay begin in our universe? There are two interesting hypotheses put forward to answer this question. One argument is that sin and evil did not exist until Satan rebelled in heaven. Until Satan rebelled, the universe operated on a different principle that it does now. We’re talking about a universe that […]

Before we jump into the text of Leviticus 21 dealing with the Levite rules for the deceased, I need to talk a little about death. I know this can be quite an uncomfortable topic but it can’t be ignored because it has everything to do with God’s plans for the human race. So the first […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 21. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. What we’ll notice as we walk through Leviticus is that some of the laws were only for the priesthood and other laws were only for the common citizens. Chapter 20, which we just finished studying, […]