Torah Portion for 07/15/2023

The main ideas from this information are: - Yahweh instructs Moses to tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy offerings of the Israelites and not to profane Yahweh's name. - Certain individuals, such as those with uncleanness or diseases, are not allowed to eat the holy offerings until they are clean. - Priests and their families have specific rules regarding eating the holy offerings. - Yahweh sets apart the priests and no strangers are allowed to eat the holy offerings. - Yahweh gives instructions about various offerings and sacrifices, including the Passover, the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Firstfruits, the Festival of Weeks, the Festival of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Festival of Tabernacles. - Yahweh commands the Israelites to leave the corners of their fields for the poor and the stranger. - The Israelites are to observe these appointed times and celebrate them as set-ap Leviticus, chapter 22, verses 1 through chapter 23, verses 44. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the set-apart offerings of the children of Yisrael, and that they do not profane My set-apart name in what they set apart to me. I am Yahweh. Say to them, Any man of all your offspring, throughout your generations, who draws near the set-apart offerings which the children of Yisrael set apart to Yahweh, while he has uncleanness on him, that being shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh. Any man of the offspring of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, does not eat the set-apart offerings until he is clean. And whoever touches what is rendered unclean by a being, or a man who has an emission of semen, or a man who touches any swarming creature by which he would be made unclean, or any being by whom he would become unclean, even any of his uncleanness, the being who has touched it shall be unclean until evening, and does not eat the set-apart offerings, but shall bathe his body in water. And when the sun goes down, he shall be clean, and afterward eat the set-apart offerings, because it is for his food. He does not eat that which dies, or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it. I am Yahweh. And they shall guard my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die thereby, when they profane it. I, Yahweh, set them apart. And no stranger eats the set-apart offering. A sojourner with the priest, or a hired servant, does not eat the set-apart offering. But when the priest buys a bean with his silver, he does eat of it. And one who is born in his house does eat his food. And when a priest's daughter is married to a stranger, she does not eat of the set-apart offerings. But when a priest's daughter is a widow, or put away, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she does eat her father's food. But no stranger eats of it. And when a man eats the set-apart offering by mistake, then he shall give a set-apart offering to the priest, and add one-fifth to it. And let the priest not profane the set-apart offerings of the children of Israel, which they lift up to Yahweh, or allow them to bear the crookedness of trespass, when they eat their set-apart offerings. For I am Yahweh, who sets them apart. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who brings his offering for any of his vows, or for any of his voluntary offerings, which they bring to Yahweh as an ascending offering, for your acceptance, it is a male, a perfect one from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats. Whatever has a defect, you do not bring, for it is not acceptable for you. And when a man brings a slaughtering of peace offerings to Yahweh, to complete a vow, or a voluntary offering, from the cattle or the sheep, it is to be perfect, to be accepted. Let there be no defect in it. Those blind, or broken, or cut, or having an ulcer, or eczema, or scabs, you do not bring to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the slaughter-place to Yahweh. As for a bull, or a lamb, that has any limb deformed, or dwarfed, you do prepare as a voluntary offering, but for a vow, it is not accepted. Do not bring to Yahweh what is bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut, nor do it in your land. And from a son of a stranger's hand, you do not bring any of these as the bread of your Elohim, for their corruption is in them, and defects are in them. They are not acceptable for you. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall be seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day, and thereafter, it is acceptable as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. But do not slay a cow, or a sheep, and its young on the same day. And when you slaughter a slaughtering of thanksgiving to Yahweh, slaughter it for your acceptance. It is eaten that same day, leave none of it till morning. I am Yahweh. And you shall guard my commands, and do them. I am Yahweh. And do not profane my set-apart name, and I shall be set-apart among the children of Yisrael. I am Yahweh, who set you apart, who brought you out of the land of Mithraim, to be your Elohim. I am Yahweh. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to the children of Yisrael, and say to them, The appointed times of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, my appointed times are these. Six days' work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set-apart gathering. You do no work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings. These are the appointed times of Yahweh, set-apart gatherings which you are to proclaim at their appointed times. In the first new moon, on the fourteenth day of the new moon, between the evenings, is the Pesach to Yahweh. And on the fifteenth day of this new moon is the festival of Matzot to Yahweh. Seven days you eat unleavened bread. On the first day you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh for seven days. On the seventh day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to the children of Yisrael, and you shall say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh for your acceptance. On the morrow, after the Sabbath, the priest waves it. And on that day, when you wave the sheaf, you shall prepare a male lamb, a year old, a perfect one, as an ascending offering to Yahweh, and its grain offering, two-tenths of an ephah, a fine flour, mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a sweet fragrance, and its drink offering, one-fourth of a hen of wine. And you do not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until the same day that you have brought an offering to your Elohim, a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. And from the morrow, after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves seven completed Sabbaths. Until the morrow, after the seventh Sabbath, you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to Yahweh. Bring from your dwellings for a wave offering, two loaves of bread, of two-tenths of an ephah, a fine flour, they are, baked with leaven, first fruits, to Yahweh. And besides the bread, you shall bring seven lambs, a year old, perfect ones, and one young bull and two rams. They are an ascending offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering, and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire, for a sweet fragrance, to Yahweh. And you shall offer one male goat, as a sin offering, and two male lambs, a year old, as a slaughter of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them, besides the bread of the first fruits, as a wave offering before Yahweh, besides the two lambs. They are set apart to Yahweh for the priest. And on this same day, you shall proclaim a set-apart gathering for yourselves. You do no servile work on it, a law forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. And when you reap the harvest of your land, do not completely reap the corners of your field when you reap, and do not gather any gleaning from your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the stranger, I and Yahweh your Elohim. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, In the seventh new moon, on the first day of the new moon, you have a rest, a remembrance of Teruah. You do no servile work, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, On the tenth day of the seventh new moon is Yom HaKippurim. It shall be a set-apart gathering for you, and you shall afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh. And you do no work on that same day, for it is Yom HaKippurim to make atonement for you before Yahweh your Elohim. For any being who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people. And any being who does any work on that same day, that being I shall destroy from the midst of his people. You do no work, a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings. On the ninth day of the new moon at evening, from evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of the seventh new moon is the festival of Sukkot for seven days to Yahweh. On the first day is a set-apart gathering. You do no servile work. For seven days you bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day there shall be a set-apart gathering for you, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a closing festival. You do no servile work. These are the appointed times of Yahweh, which you proclaim as set-apart gatherings, to bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh, an ascending offering, and a grain offering, a slaughtering and drink offering, as commanded for every day, besides the Sabbath of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings, which you give to Yahweh. On the fifteenth day of the seventh new moon, when you gather in the fruit of the land, celebrate the festival of Yahweh for seven days. On the first day is a rest, and on the eighth day a rest, and you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of good trees, branches of palm trees, twigs of leafy trees, and willows of the stream, and shall rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim for seven days. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to Yahweh for seven days in the year, a law forever in your generations. Celebrate it in the seventh new moon. Dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native born in Yisra'el dwell in booths, so that your generations know that I made the children of Yisra'el dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim. I am Yahweh your Elohim." Thus did Moshe speak of the appointed times of Yahweh to the children of Yisra'el. For more information visit www.fema.org