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3. PENING low the Shofar 3 3 3 3

4. PENING Why do we blow the Shofar? Exodus 19:16 “On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and there was the sounding of a very loud SHOFAR blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.” Because this is the way G-D begins sacred assemblies 4 4 4 4

5. HEMA ISRAELHear oh Israel Shema Israel Adoni Elohaynu (Hear oh Israel the L-RD our G-D) Adoni Echad (The L-RD is one) 5 5 5 5 5

6. hy do we recite/sing the SHEMA? Because Messiah said it was the greatest Commandment Mark 12:28-29 28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the greatest commandment of all?” 29 And Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:” 6 6 6 6 6

7. e-nay Ma TovBehold how good - Psalm 133:1Am He-Nay Maw tove Behold how good Oo-maw nye—eem And how pleasant it is Shevet aw-heem For brothers to dwell Gum Yaw Hawd In unity 7 7 7

8. menCL 3A A-men ….A-men….A-men, A-men, A-men Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Blessed be the Name, blessed be the Name Baw-rouk Ha-Shem Me-she-ach Blessed be the Name of Messiah 8 8 8

9. -Seh ShalomCL3 Play Em Em O-seh Shalom Beem rue-mawv Am D7 G Em Who yah-seh Shalom aw-lay-nu Am D7 G V'al kol Yees-raw-ale Em Am Em Bf7 Em B'-eem rue Eem rue Ah- main  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Em Am D7 G Ya-a-seh sha-lom Ya-a-seh sha-lom G Bf7 Em Shalom aw-lay-new V’al kol Yees-raw-ale Sing twice 2X 9 9 9

10. ring our gifts to the altar We Bring Our Sacrifice With Praise We Bring Our Sacrifice With Praise Unto the House of the LORD (2 X) And we offer unto Him Our sacrifices with thanksgiving And we offer unto Him Our sacrifices with joy 10

11. Leviticus 12 Slide 1 Exegetical Running Commentary 1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Even though I go verse by verse when doing the Parsha, it’s not the way it was done in ancient days. There was no chapter or verse then, there was no Canon then either

12. Leviticus 12 Slide 2 There was just the Torah and the writings. Psudopigraphal works and the Apocrypha didn’t have those names, they were all together and called “The Writings”. But because we now have these chapters and verses, we’ll use it.

13. Leviticus 12 LORD • So the L-RD spoke to Moshe • The translation here says capital “LORD” in the King James version and most others that means Yehova. • That becomes important when we start to look at how to deal with the JW’s and the Mormons. Slide 3

14. Leviticus 12 • 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. (KJV) • Infirmity isn’t the best word here, in Hebrew the word is “davah” דּוה and it means to not feel well. Slide 4

15. Leviticus 12 • 1. A bodily weakness, especially one brought on by old age. • 2. Frailty; feebleness. • 3. A condition or disease producing weakness. • 4. A failing or defect in a person's character. Slide 5

16. Leviticus 12 • So after child birth a woman was considered unclean but I also want to explain the word “unclean” here. • When we use the word unclean in Hebrew it can mean a couple different things. • In English it always has a negative context. • Not so in Hebrew Slide 6

17. Leviticus 12 Slide 7 Unclean can also mean “you can’t touch this”. we learned last week that blood is holy. In the case of a woman’s menstrual flow and the blood after childbirth, we understand it as the life force and it belongs to G-d. So a woman who has just had her period or has just given birth

18. Leviticus 12 Slide 8 Is in a sense… holy. Not unclean as in the sense that a pig is unclean. It’s different. I’ve heard so called Christian men actually use this passage as an attack on their wives to make them feel bad. In order to do that, you have to take the passage clear out of context.

19. Leviticus 12 Slide 9 • 3. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. • If you go to a Bris (circumcision) today you’ll find there’s a Rabbi (He’s called a Mohel/Moyal) who has some fairly extensive medical training and he performs the circumcision.

20. Leviticus 12 • New tool in development for a bris.

21. Leviticus 12 • Many Messianics and Orthodox teach that this is the way it’s always been • In ancient days even past the first century there wasn’t a Mohel (Moyal). There was no such thing. • In the First Century and prior there was simply an elder who had some experience at doing this and he’s the one who did the cutting. Slide 10

22. Leviticus 12 • 4And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. • Here again we have the translators theology getting in the way of what’s really being said. Slide 11

23. Leviticus 12 • Here’s what it actually is saying… • For 30 days she shall dwell, holy (kodesh!!!) as she’s purified of the blood. Not eating sacrificial flesh. Nor go about the sanctuary till her ceremonial purification (tahorah). • Match to… • 4And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. קֹדֶשׁ Slide 12

24. Leviticus 12 • Now keep in mind what we’ve just learned as we read on. Think Hebraic rather then Greek • 5But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean (holy) two weeks, as in her separation (dwelling): and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying (ceremonial purification) threescore and six days. Slide 13

25. Leviticus 12 • So there’s still a question that arises here. Why does a mother have to wait longer if she has a daughter then if she has a son? • Again it goes back to the Jewish understanding of the life force (G-d creating life) Slide 14

26. Leviticus 12 Slide 15 If she has a daughter, that daughter is a potential bearer of the life force (another life) so purification is extended as a respect to that fact. Ancient Judaism has a tremendous amount of respect for women and the birth process as the mother has come as close to the life/death nexus as anyone can! Because of this she and the newborn are in a temporarily separate place from the rest of the world and thus her separation.

27. Leviticus 12 Why are you looking at us again??? Slide 16 6And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

28. Leviticus 12 • This is why she couldn’t eat anything sacrificial! Because she had to bring her own sacrifice after her ceremonial purification. • The reason the mother brings a dove for her sin-offering is because in ancient Judaism the dove is a symbol of homesickness. “And as the dove returns to the nest, so all who are kept from the sanctuary return to the "nest.“” Talmud Slide 17

29. Leviticus 12 • 7Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female. • Why does the woman need to be atoned for? What sin did she commit? SIN Slide 18

30. Leviticus 12 • The Talmud says that it was customary for women who “were in the travails of childbirth” would say they would “never submit to their husbands again.” • Although this was not a sin unto death, it still required a sin offering. Slide 19

31. Leviticus 13 Slide 20 1And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, Now the L-rd isn't speaking only to Moses but also to Aaron.

32. Leviticus 12 • 2When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: • The uncleanness of lesions and their cleanness do not come about except by the pronouncement of a kohen. Slide 21

33. Leviticus 12 Slide 22 3And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

34. Leviticus 12 Slide 23 The plague of tzoraat (lepersy) is treated as a fact of life, a disease that makes a person unclean, unfit to remain in the community. 4If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:

35. Leviticus 12 Slide 24 What they did was send the person back to their house for 7 days and then reexamined them. 5. And on the seventh day, the kohen shall see him. And, behold! the lesion has remained the same in its appearance; the lesion has not spread on the skin. So the kohen shall quarantine him for seven days a second time.

36. Leviticus 12 • The Cohen quarantines him… a second time: But if it the lesion spread in the first week, he is definitely unclean. - [See Tohorote Nega’im 3:3] Slide 25

37. Leviticus 12 • 6And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. Slide 25

38. Leviticus 12 Slide 26 • The people didn’t seem to hold any resentment with being sent out of the city if that was their lot. • In 2 Kings, the Haftara reading to the Torah portion Metzora, we read the story of four lepers who saved the Israelite army. • There is extensive writing in the Mishna concerning leprosy

39. Leviticus 12 • Now, no matter where you sit concerning covenantal laws or Noadic laws I think we can all agree that G-d only gives those who follow Him good things. So if He tells His Children of Israel to do something, it behoves everyone to listen. • Eating kosher not only sets us apart, it is a healthy lifestyle. • If we truly are the temple of the holy spirit, then health should be important to us Slide 27

40. Leviticus 12 Slide 28 Let me show you a few things that is very unhealthy about not eating Kosher. For years Jews have known how unhealthy pork is for the human body. Most Gentiles only know about trichinosis and they feel that if they cook the pork meat well enough they can avoid that terrible disease.

41. Leviticus 12 • But did you know it causes many other health problems ? Like… • inflammations of the appendix and gall bladder, biliary colics, acute intestinal catarrhal, gastroenteritis with typhoid and paratyphoid symptoms, as well as acute eczema, carbuncles, sudoriparous abscesses, and others. Slide 29

42. Leviticus 12 • It also causes high stress levels and emits toxins and poisons into the human body. • Doctor Reckeweg, MD notes the following concerning those who eat pork…“The Islamic population does not consume pork and is healthy, working to a considerable age as porters for numerous expeditions. Slide 30

43. Leviticus 12 Slide 31 • The races of the Western civilizations living on the other side of the valley do not observe the Islamic rules of behavior and eating, and suffer from all of the common illnesses. In other words, the population which observes the Islamic laws is healthy, while those who follow the habits of western civilization manifest all the typical diseases which come with the consumption of pork”.

44. Leviticus 12 Slide 32 • Scripture is clear on the point.Deut. 14: "You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud. However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are unclean for you. The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses."

45. Leviticus 12 Slide 33 • Pork eaters are also more susceptible to the bird flu! Pig health.com says, “Pigs are an important host in influenza ecology since they are susceptible to infection from both human and avian influenza (bird flu).” It must be understood that the lungs of a pig is very similar to that of a human. Pig lung is a main ingredient in sausage and it’s been found that people who eat sausage are more susceptible to influenza then those who don’t.

46. Leviticus 12 Slide 34 • pork eaters will contract influenza first and will suffer the most. • Pork consumption can also affect the brain. A survey was done on those who have a high pork intake and those who had a low pork intake. They found that those with a low pork intake (those who didn’t eat much pork) had a higher I.Q. • Another interesting fact has been found in test rats. Rats that were fed pork meat became cannibalistic.

47. Lev.:11 47 • Those who say that “The Law is only for the Jews”, fine then, at least it will keep me alive. If you’re not really into living, then by all means, don’t keep kosher. • G-d gave us The Law for a reason, because it is good for us. Sometimes physically, sometimes spiritually most times both. Slide 35

48. Luke 7-9 Slide 36 Before we get to our next passage in Luke I want to do a little background on Luke himself. Me and Rabbi Ken got to talk a little about this a few days ago but I want to expound a bit more on it for just a moment. It’s commonly thought that Luke was a Gentile. That’s what the Church Fathers taught going clear back to Tertullian. But let’s look and see if there’s actually any truth to this idea. Why is it even important?

49. Luke 7-9 Slide 37 Everything in the Bible is important, every jot and every yud. Luke is especially important because if you take a look at your bible you'll see the Brit Hadasha has more of Luke's writings then any other writer. I’m not saying he has more books, I’m saying he has more writings (volume).

50. Luke 7-9 Slide 38 That makes him an important figure in New Testament theology. This in turn means that the L-rd entrusted a Gentile with more pages of the New Testament then He did to any other writer. If that was true, then the Bible is a lie. Now that makes this issue very very important.