# Commentary on Parashat Emor, Leviticus 21:1-24:23
God imparts specific laws to Moses regarding Aaron and all priests. These priests are to maintain purity and holiness, avoiding contact with the dead, refraining from profaning God's Name, and not marrying a harlot or a divorced individual. If a priest’s daughter engages in harlotry, it is her father who bears the disgrace, and she must be burned in fire.
## The High Priest's Additional Rules
The High Priest is held to even stricter standards. He must not allow his hair to grow wild, tear his garments in mourning, or come into contact with the dead. He cannot leave the Sanctuary and must marry a virgin from among his people. If he suffers a physical blemish, he is forbidden from approaching the altar to make offerings to God.
God instructs Moses to tell Aaron that if any offspring has a defect, they are not permitted to approach the Holy Shrine to offer food to God. In fact, no man with a defect—be it blindness, lameness, mutilation, overlong limbs, or broken bones—may approach the Holy Shrine for offerings. While Aaron’s children with defects may eat from the food offerings, they cannot enter behind the holy curtain or approach the slaughter site, as this would desecrate God’s sacred spaces.
## Guidelines for Offerings
God commands Moses to inform the people not to present priestly offerings while in a state of uncleanness and to avoid sacrifices involving blemished animals. Only those in a state of cleanliness may partake of holy offerings. Do not profane My holy Name; let Me be sanctified, for I, God, make you holy.
These are the appointed times for gathering. For six days, work is to be done, but on the seventh day, you must cease all labor and declare it a Sabbath of rest—a day dedicated to God in all your homes.
## Festivals and Offerings
In the first month, on the fourteenth day, you shall observe Passover in honor of God. The next day begins the Festival of Unleavened Bread, during which you will eat only unleavened bread for seven days. The first and the seventh days are to be proclaimed holy, with no work permitted.
When you enter the Promised Land and gather your harvest, bring an omer from your first reaping to the priest, who will offer it to God. After counting fifty days from these offerings, you are to present a new offering to God, which includes both leavened and unleavened bread, along with unblemished animals as a sign of obedience to God. Leave the gleanings of your harvest for the poor and the stranger.
## Yom Kippur & Sukkot
On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall observe the Day of Atonement. This day is to be marked by fasting and refraining from creative work or any activities. Anyone who fails to afflict themselves on this day will be cut off from their kin. This holy Sabbath, the Day of Atonement, is an everlasting statute for your descendants in all your dwelling places.
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Festival of Huts begins, lasting for seven days in honor of God. No work is to be done on the first and eighth days. On the first day, gather beautiful fruits, palm branches, myrtle branches, and willows from the brook, and rejoice before God. You shall dwell in booths for seven days, so that future generations may remember that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt.
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain of the Pact, Aaron shall maintain a light to burn continually, day and night, for generations to come. Every Sabbath, Aaron shall present bread and incense as an offering to the Lord.
If anyone disrespects God’s Name and commits blasphemy, they are to be taken outside the camp and stoned by the community. Anyone who murders a human being shall be put to death. If someone injures an animal, they must pay for it, life for life. When harm is done to a fellow human, the same must be inflicted on the offender—fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The injury inflicted shall be exacted upon the perpetrator. There shall be one standard for both the stranger and the citizen alike, for I, the Lord, am your God.
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God imparts specific laws to Moses regarding Aaron and all priests. These priests are to maintain purity and holiness, avoiding contact with the dead, refraining from profaning God's Name, and not marrying a harlot or a divorced individual. If a priest’s daughter engages in harlotry, it is her father who bears the disgrace, and she must be burned in fire.
## The High Priest's Additional Rules
The High Priest is held to even stricter standards. He must not allow his hair to grow wild, tear his garments in mourning, or come into contact with the dead. He cannot leave the Sanctuary and must marry a virgin from among his people. If he suffers a physical blemish, he is forbidden from approaching the altar to make offerings to God.
God instructs Moses to tell Aaron that if any offspring has a defect, they are not permitted to approach the Holy Shrine to offer food to God. In fact, no man with a defect—be it blindness, lameness, mutilation, overlong limbs, or broken bones—may approach the Holy Shrine for offerings. While Aaron’s children with defects may eat from the food offerings, they cannot enter behind the holy curtain or approach the slaughter site, as this would desecrate God’s sacred spaces.
## Guidelines for Offerings
God commands Moses to inform the people not to present priestly offerings while in a state of uncleanness and to avoid sacrifices involving blemished animals. Only those in a state of cleanliness may partake of holy offerings. Do not profane My holy Name; let Me be sanctified, for I, God, make you holy.
These are the appointed times for gathering. For six days, work is to be done, but on the seventh day, you must cease all labor and declare it a Sabbath of rest—a day dedicated to God in all your homes.
## Festivals and Offerings
In the first month, on the fourteenth day, you shall observe Passover in honor of God. The next day begins the Festival of Unleavened Bread, during which you will eat only unleavened bread for seven days. The first and the seventh days are to be proclaimed holy, with no work permitted.
When you enter the Promised Land and gather your harvest, bring an omer from your first reaping to the priest, who will offer it to God. After counting fifty days from these offerings, you are to present a new offering to God, which includes both leavened and unleavened bread, along with unblemished animals as a sign of obedience to God. Leave the gleanings of your harvest for the poor and the stranger.
## Yom Kippur & Sukkot
On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall observe the Day of Atonement. This day is to be marked by fasting and refraining from creative work or any activities. Anyone who fails to afflict themselves on this day will be cut off from their kin. This holy Sabbath, the Day of Atonement, is an everlasting statute for your descendants in all your dwelling places.
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Festival of Huts begins, lasting for seven days in honor of God. No work is to be done on the first and eighth days. On the first day, gather beautiful fruits, palm branches, myrtle branches, and willows from the brook, and rejoice before God. You shall dwell in booths for seven days, so that future generations may remember that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt.
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain of the Pact, Aaron shall maintain a light to burn continually, day and night, for generations to come. Every Sabbath, Aaron shall present bread and incense as an offering to the Lord.
If anyone disrespects God’s Name and commits blasphemy, they are to be taken outside the camp and stoned by the community. Anyone who murders a human being shall be put to death. If someone injures an animal, they must pay for it, life for life. When harm is done to a fellow human, the same must be inflicted on the offender—fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The injury inflicted shall be exacted upon the perpetrator. There shall be one standard for both the stranger and the citizen alike, for I, the Lord, am your God.
#parasha #torahportion #torah #bible #biblestudy #obedience
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https://youtube.com/c/WisdominTorahMinistries
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https://israelyarah.org
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ciy/id1610097103
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