Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah.
This parashah is divided according to the chapters. Chapter 22 instructs us about the set apartness of the offering we bring to YHVH and the severe consequences of punishment if we do not.
Chapter 23 has to do with the appointments and in the case of Yom Ha Kippurim, failure to honour this appointment will cause one to be cut off from Yisrael.
In the scriptures we are
given the status and road map required for us to enter the fulness of the
kingdom. Yahshua our High priest perfectly demonstrated to us these
requirements while he was on earth.
We firstly need to be set apart and then we need to follow the path YHVH has given is to reach our final destiny.
Jer 6:16 Thus said יהוה, “Stand in the ways and see,
and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and find rest
for yourselves. But they said, ‘We do not walk in it.’
Jer 6:17 “And I raised up watchmen over you, and said,
‘Listen to a voice of a shophar!’ But they said, ‘We do not listen.’
Jer 6:18 “Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation,
what is upon them!
Jer 6:19 “Hear, O earth! See, I am bringing evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My words, nor My Torah – and they rejected it.
All Spirit guided ministry will guide us back to these ancient paths.
1Pe 1:16 because it has been written, “Be set-apart, for I am
set-apart.” Lev_11:44, Lev_19:2.
1Pe 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality
judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in
fear, (Heb
11:13 – aliens and strangers on earth)
1Pe 1:18 knowing that you were redeemed from your futile
behaviour inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver or
gold,
1Pe 1:19 but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb
unblemished and spotless,
1Pe 1:20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world,
but manifested in these last times for your sakes,
1Pe 1:21 who through Him believe in Elohim who raised Him from
the dead and gave Him esteem, so that your belief and expectation are in
Elohim.
1Pe 1:22 Now that you have cleansed your lives in obeying the
truth through the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another
fervently with a clean heart,
1Pe 1:23 having been born again – not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible – through the living Word of Elohim, which remains forever,
Psa 23:1 יהוה is my shepherd; I do not lack.
Psa 23:2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me
beside still waters.
Psa 23:3 He turns back a my being; He leads me in paths (Heb ‘’ma agal’’ or cycles) of righteousness For His Name’s sake. Footnote: aOr He converts.
Each Hebrew new year is the beginning of a new cycle (if the One Year cycle is followed).
Hb 1:1 Elohim, having of old spoken in many
portions (Gk
‘’polumeros’’ portions like the parashiot)
and many ways to the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 has in these last days spoken to us by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the ages,a Footnote: aSee Joh_1:3.
The appointments themselves reveal the very nature and mission of the Messiah – to bring us into harmony with Messiah and to bring us back into the presence of His and our Father.
We must sadly assume that because of a defiled and absent priesthood, there is no Temple and there is no longer a functioning Levitical priesthood because they have been disobedient YHVH. There remain however promises that the priesthood will one day be restored again – Jer 33:18
Joh 2:13 And the Pěsaḥ of the Yehuḏim was near, and יהושע went up to Yerushalayim.
Joh 2:14 And He found in the Set-apart Place those selling oxen
and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting.
Joh 2:15 And having made a whip of cords, He drove them all out
of the Set-apart Place, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the
moneychangers’ coins and overturned the tables.
Joh 2:16 And He said to those selling doves, “Take these away! Do
not make the house of My Father a house of merchandise!”
Mat 21:13 And He said to them, “It has been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer,’ Isa_56:7 but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ” Jer_7:11. Jn 2:13-16
CLV -Hosea 3:4,5 For
many days shall the sons of Israel dwell without king and without chief, and
without sacrifice and without altar, and without priesthood or
thummim." Afterward are the sons of Israel returning, and they
seek YHVH their Elohim, and David their king, and they come in awe to YHVH and
to His goodness, in the latter days."
Eze 20:34 “And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather
you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.
Eze 20:35 “And I shall bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there.
Eze 20:36 “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim, so I shall enter into judgment with you,”
declares the Master יהוה.
Eze 20:37 “And I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall
bring you into the bond of the covenant,
Eze 20:38 and purge the rebels from among you, and those who
transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but
they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ěl. And you shall know that I am יהוה.
Lev 22:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 22:2 “Speak to Aharon and his sons, that they
separate(Heb – yi nazru – niphyl fut. tense verb – to dedicate, consecrate or
separate) themselves from(Heb – for) the set-apart offerings of the
children of Yisra’ĕl, and that they do not profane My set-apart Name in what
they set apart to Me. I am יהוה.
Lev 22:3 “Say to them, ‘Any man (Heb - every man)of
all your offspring throughout your generations who draws near the set-apart offerings
which the children of Yisra’ĕl set apart to יהוה, while he has
uncleanness upon him, that being shall be cut off from before Me. I am יהוה.
Lev 22:4 ‘Any man of the offspring of Aharon, who is a
leper or has a discharge, does not eat the set-apart offerings until he
is clean. And whoever touches what is rendered unclean (Heb ‘’tamei’’) by a
corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen,
Lev 22:5 or a man who touches any creeping creature by
which he would be made unclean, or any being by whom he would become unclean,
(Heb ‘’tamei’’) even any of his uncleanness; (tamei)
Lev 22:6 the being who has touched it shall be unclean
(tamei) until evening, and does not eat the set-apart offerings, but
shall bathe his body in water.
Lev 22:7 ‘And when the sun goes down he shall be
clean, and afterward eat the set-apart offerings, because it is his
food.
Lev 22:8 ‘He does not eat that which dies or is torn by
beasts, becoming unclean (tamei) by it. I am יהוה.
Lev 22:9 ‘And they shall guard My Charge, lest they
bear sin for it and die thereby, when they profane it. I יהוה set them apart.
Lev 22:10 ‘And no stranger eats the set-apart offering.
A sojourner with the priest, or a hired servant, does not eat the set-apart offering.
Lev 22:11 ‘But when the priest buys a being (nefesh –
fem noun – can be male or female) with his money, he does eat of it. And one
who is born in his house does eat his food.
Lev 22:12 ‘And when a priest’s daughter is married to a
stranger, she does not eat of the set-apart offerings.
Lev 22:13 ‘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.
Lev 22:14 ‘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.
Lev 22:15 ‘And let the priests not profane the
set-apart offerings of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they lift up to יהוה,
Lev 22:16 or allow them to bear the crookedness (Heb
‘’avon’’ iniquity – intentional sin) of trespass when they eat their set-apart
offerings. For I am יהוה, who sets them
apart.’ ” (maybe someone who wants to be
priest but has not been set apart to be a priest)
Lev 22:17 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 22:18 “Speak to Aharon and his sons, and to all the
children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Yisra’ĕl, or of
the strangers in Yisra’ĕl, who brings his offering for any of his vows or for
any of his voluntary offerings, which they bring to יהוה as a burnt offering,
Lev 22:19 for your acceptance, is a male, a perfect one
from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.
Lev 22:20 ‘Whatever has a defect, you do not bring, for
it is not acceptable for you.
Lev 22:21 ‘And when a man brings a peace offering to יהוה, 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.
Lev 22:22 ‘Those blind or broken or having a cut, or
have an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you do not bring to יהוה, nor make an offering by fire of them on
the altar to יהוה.
Lev 22:23 ‘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.
Lev 22:24 ‘Do not bring to יהוה what is bruised or crushed, or torn or
cut, nor do it in your land.
“Castrated animals were not to be
sacrificed, nor in fact to be kept in the land at all. The castration of
animals is a mutilation of YHVH's creation, and the prohibition of it was based
upon the same principle as that of mixing heterogeneous things in Lev_19:19”
Lev 22:25 ‘And from a son of a stranger’s (Heb –
‘’nechar’’ stranger or alien) 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.’ ”
Lev 22:26 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 22:27 “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 יהוה.
Lev 22:28 “But do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and
its young on the same day.
Lev 22:29 “And when you bring a slaughtering of
thanksgiving to יהוה, bring it for
your acceptance.
Lev 22:30 “It is eaten that same day, leave none of it
till morning. I am יהוה.
Lev 22:31 “And you shall guard My commands and do them.
I am יהוה.
Lev 22:32 “And do not profane My set-apart Name, and I
shall be set-apart among the children of Yisra’ĕl. I am יהוה, who sets you apart,
Lev 22:33 who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim,
to be your Elohim. I am יהוה.”
Lev 23:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh,
saying,
Lev 23:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say
to them, ‘The appointed times of יהוה, which you are
to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, My appointed times, are these:
Lev 23:3 ‘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
יהוה in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:4 ‘These are the appointed times of יהוה, set-apart gatherings which you are to
proclaim at their appointed times.
Lev 23:5 ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of
the month, between the evenings, is the Passover to יהוה. (Exodus 12:2)
Lev 23:6 ‘And on the fifteenth day of this month is
the Festival of Unleavened Bread to יהוה – seven days
you eat unleavened bread. (Mat 16:6 –
leaven and false doctrines – 1 Cor 5:6 – little leaven …..)
Lev 23:7 ‘On the first day you have a set-apart
gathering, you do no servile work.
Lev 23:8 ‘And you shall bring an offering made by fire
to יהוה for seven days. On the seventh day is a
set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.’ ”
Lev 23:9 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 23:10 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, 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 first-fruits of your
harvest to the priest.
Lev 23:11 ‘And he shall wave the sheaf before יהוה, for your acceptance. On the morrow after
the Sabbath the priest waves it.
Lev 23:12 ‘And on that day when you wave the sheaf, you
shall prepare a male lamb a year old, a perfect one, as a burnt offering to יהוה,
Lev 23:13 and its grain offering: two-tenths of an
ĕphah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to יהוה, a sweet fragrance, and its drink
offering: one-fourth of a hin of wine.
Lev 23:14 ‘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.
Lev 23:15 ‘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.
Lev 23:16 ‘Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath
you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to יהוה.
Lev 23:17 ‘Bring from your dwellings for a wave
offering two loaves of bread, of two-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour
they are, baked with leaven, first-fruits to יהוה.
Lev 23:18 ‘And besides the bread, you shall bring seven
lambs a year old, perfect ones, and one young bull and two rams. They are a
burnt offering to יהוה, with their
grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet
fragrance to יהוה.
Lev 23:19 ‘And you shall offer one male goat as a sin
offering, and two male lambs a year old, as a peace offering.
Lev 23:20 ‘And the priest shall wave them, besides the
bread of the first-fruits, as a wave offering before יהוה, besides the two lambs. They are set-apart
to יהוה for the priest.
Lev 23:21 ‘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.
Lev 23:22 ‘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 am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”
Lev 23:23 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 23:24 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying,
‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you have a rest, a
remembrance of blowing of trumpets, a set-apart gathering.
Lev 23:25 ‘You do no servile work, and you shall bring
an offering made by fire to יהוה.’ ”
Lev 23:26 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 23:27 “On the tenth day of this seventh month is
the Day of Atonement. It shall be a set-apart gathering for you. And you shall
afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה.
Lev 23:28 “And you do no work on that same day, for it
is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before יהוה your Elohim.
Lev 23:29 “For any being who is not afflicted on that
same day, he shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 23:30 “And any being who does any work on that same
day, that being I shall destroy from the midst of his people.
Lev 23:31 “You do no work – a law forever throughout
your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:32 ‘It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you
shall afflict your beings. On the ninth day of the month at evening, from
evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath.”
Lev 23:33 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Lev 23:34 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying,
‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths for seven
days to יהוה.
Lev 23:35 ‘On the first day is a set-apart gathering,
you do no servile work.
Lev 23:36 ‘For seven days you bring an offering made by
fire to יהוה. On the eighth day there shall be a
set-apart gathering for you, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה. It is a closing festival, you do no
servile work.
Lev 23:37 ‘These are the appointed times of יהוה which you proclaim as set-apart
gatherings, to bring an offering made by fire to יהוה, a burnt offering
and a grain offering, a slaughtering and drink offerings, as commanded for
every day –
Lev 23:38 besides the Sabbaths of יהוה, and besides your gifts, and besides all
your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings which you give to יהוה.
Lev 23:39 ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when you gather in the fruit of the land, observe the festival of יהוה for seven days. On the first day is a
rest, and on the eighth day a rest.
Lev 23:40 ‘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 יהוה your Elohim for seven days.
Lev 23:41 ‘And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה for seven days in the year – a law forever
in your generations. Observe it in the seventh month.
Lev 23:42 ‘Dwell in booths for seven days; all who are
native Yisra’ĕlites dwell in booths,
Lev 23:43 so that your generations know that I made the
children of Yisra’ĕl dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of
Mitsrayim. I am יהוה your Elohim.’
”
Lev 23:44 Thus did Mosheh speak of the appointed times
of יהוה to the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Deu 4:26 “I shall call
the heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon
completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yarděn to possess – you
do not prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed.
Deu 4:27 “And יהוה shall
scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the
nations where יהוה drives you.
Deu 4:28 “And there you
shall serve mighty ones, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither
see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Deu 4:29 “But from there
you shall seek יהוה your Elohim, and shall find, when you
search for Him with all your heartb and with all your being. Footnote: b Jer_29:13.
Deu 4:30 “In your
distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you
shall return to יהוה your Elohim and shall obey His
voice.
Deu 4:31 “For יהוה your
Elohim is a compassionate Ěl, He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor
forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
Deu 4:32 “For ask now of
the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that Elohim
created man on the earth, and ask from one end of the heavens to the other end
of the heavens, whether there has been a Word as great as this, or has been
heard like it.
Deu 4:33 “Has a people
heard the voice of Elohim speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have
heard, and live?
Deu 4:34 “Or has Elohim
tried to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of a nation by trials,
and by signs, and by wonders, and by battle, and by a strong hand and an
outstretched arm, and by great fearsome deeds, according to all that יהוה your
Elohim did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes?
Deu 4:35 “You have been
shown it, to know that יהוה Himself is Elohim; there is no one beside
Him.
Deu 4:36 “From the
heavens He let you hear His voice, to instruct you, and on earth He showed you
His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.
Deu 4:37 “And because He
loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you
out of Mitsrayim with His Presence, with His great power,
Deu 4:38 to drive out
from before you nations greater and stronger than you, to bring you in, to give
you their land as an inheritance, as it is today.
Deu 4:39 “And you shall
know today, and shall recall to your heart that יהוה Himself
is Elohim in the heavens above and on the earth beneath; there is none
else.
Deu 4:40 “And you shall
guard His laws and His commands which I command you today, so that it is well
with you and with your children after you, and so that you prolong your days on
the soil which יהוה your Elohim is giving you for all
time.”
When will the Messiah return?
Act 3:19 “Repent
therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that times
of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master,
Act 3:20 and that He sends
יהושע Messiah,
pre-appointed for you, (Gk – ‘’to purpose for a people in advance’’)
Act 3:21 whom heaven
needs to receive until the times of restoration of all matters, of which
Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old.
Act 3:22 “For Mosheh
truly said to the fathers, ‘יהוה your
Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you
shall hear according to all matters, whatever He says to you.
Act 3:23 ‘And it
shall be that every being who does not hear that Prophet shall be utterly
destroyed from among the people.’ Deu_18:15-19.
Does this ‘’Prophet’’ say anything different from Moshe?
Baruch atah
YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam
nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are
you YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of
truth, and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you,
YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn