{"id":121668,"date":"2018-04-22T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=121668"},"modified":"2023-05-31T04:55:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:55:42","slug":"alt-right-sunday-parshat-acharei-kedoshim-leviticus-161-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=121668","title":{"rendered":"Parshat Acharei-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1\u201320:27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v2ok1xk\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v2ok1xk\",\"div\":\"rumble_v2ok1xk\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/parshah\/article_cdo\/aid\/2894\/jewish\/Acharei-Kedoshim-in-a-Nutshell.htm\">From Chabad.org<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following the deaths of Nadav and Avihu, G\u2011d warns against unauthorized entry \u201cinto the holy.\u201d Only one person, the kohen gadol (\u201chigh priest\u201d), may\u2014but once a year, on Yom Kippur\u2014enter the innermost chamber in the Sanctuary to offer the sacred ketoret to G\u2011d.<\/p>\n<p>Another feature of the Day of Atonement service is the casting of lots over two goats, to determine which should be offered to G\u2011d and which should be dispatched to carry off the sins of Israel to the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>The Parshah of Acharei also warns against bringing korbanot (animal or meal offerings) anywhere but in the Holy Temple, forbids the consumption of blood, and details the laws prohibiting incest and other deviant sexual relations.<\/p>\n<p>The Parshah of Kedoshim begins with the statement: \u201cYou shall be holy, for I, the L\u2011rd your G\u2011d, am holy.\u201d This is followed by dozens of mitzvot (divine commandments) through which the Jew sanctifies him- or herself and relates to the holiness of G\u2011d.<\/p>\n<p>These include: the prohibition against idolatry, the mitzvah of charity, the principle of equality before the law, Shabbat, sexual morality, honesty in business, honor and awe of one\u2019s parents, and the sacredness of life.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Kedoshim is the dictum which the great sage Rabbi Akiva called a cardinal principle of Torah, and of which Hillel said, \u201cThis is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary\u201d\u2014\u201cLove your fellow as yourself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lev. 16:1: &#8220;The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aaron&#8217;s two sons didn&#8217;t stay in their lane. They offered strange fire while drunk in the Sanctuary. The closer you come to holiness, the more likely you are to be exposed. Great people can see right through you. In traditional Judaism, you don&#8217;t just walk up to great rabbis and say hi. The more traditional the form of Judaism, the more hierarchical it is and the more veneration Torah scholars receive and the more care they take with how they dress. <\/p>\n<p>High achievers are more sensitive to the stench of under-earning, to people who don&#8217;t have an accurate view of themselves and of reality.<\/p>\n<p>The Torah&#8217;s prescriptions are minute. They&#8217;re all process. Success and failure depend on process. You put the right ingredients in the right order and bake them in the oven at the right temperature, the cake comes out delicious.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a lot of room to just wing it with Jewish religious rituals.<\/p>\n<p>Lev. 16:4-5: &#8220;He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the Torah perspective, how you dress is important. Whether or not you bathe is important. Cleanliness is important, but it is part of a constellation of values, so for example, Orthodox Jews don&#8217;t bathe on the Sabbath and religious holidays. There are at times higher values than cleanliness. <\/p>\n<p>The opposite of Torah is pointless self-destructive poverty. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.underearnersanonymous.org\/symptoms.html\">Underearning behavior<\/a> &#8212; your phone dies, your car dies, your computer dies, you didn&#8217;t back up your work&#8230; Stability boredom so you create drama and isolate yourself. <\/p>\n<p>Leviticus 16: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. 7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 8 He is to cast lots for the two goats\u2014one lot for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat.[b] 9 Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the Lord and sacrifice it for a sin offering. 10 But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat.<\/p>\n<p>11 \u201cAaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering. 12 He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain. 13 He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die. 14 He is to take some of the bull\u2019s blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Judaism puts great stress on providing for your family. &#8220;Parnassah&#8221; is important. The Jewish way of life is expensive. All these bulls and goats and incense and sanctuaries don&#8217;t just pay for themselves. <\/p>\n<p>The philosophical underpinning for all these cleansing rituals is that the world is full of poz and if you allow it to gather on and around you and accumulate, you will die. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001I460LK\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&#038;btkr=1\">Jacob Milgrom writes in his book on Leviticus<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All year long, Israel&#8217;s sins have been polluting the sanctuary. True, the pious have been bringing purification offerings, which prove effective because their impurity was caused inadvertently. However, what of the advertent, brazen sinner? Their sins have penetrated into the adytum, the inner sanctum, polluting the very seat of the Godhead, threatening the destruction of the community. Since the brazen sinners are barred from offering sacrifice, how then is the sanctuary purified? The answer is Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Purgation, when the high priest risks his life by entering the adytum-to which entry is forbidden to mortal humans-and purifies the adytum through a smoke screen. The high priest emerges, transfers the removed pollution plus all the sins of the people, which he confesses, onto the head of a live goat, and dispatches the goat to the wilderness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The similarities between the Babylonian New Year Festival and Israel&#8217;s Yom Kippur are immediately apparent. On both occasions, (1) the temple is purged by rites that demand that the high priest rise before dawn, bathe and dress in linen, employ a censer, and perform a sprinkling rite on the sanctuary; (2) the impurity is eliminated by means of slaughtered animals; (3) the participants are rendered impure; and (4) the king\/high priest submits to a ritual of confession and penitence. <\/p>\n<p>In each of these categories there are also significant differences. (1) Whereas in Babylon the demon-intruder is exorcised, in Israel it is the sin and iniquity generated by humanity that must be expunged. Israel uniquely elevated the people and their behavior to being worthy of divine scrutiny. The fate of the nation rests on the shoulders ders not of its leadership but of its laity. Moreover, whereas the purgation of the temple is the predominant aim of all of the rituals during the Day of Purgation, the Babylonian purgation rite is relatively minor, preparing one of the many cellas in Marduk&#8217;s temple, Esagila, for the brief stay of a visiting god, Nabu. (2) In Babylon the detergent itself (the carcass of the ram) is eliminated; in Israel elimination is achieved by dispatching a goat onto which Israel&#8217;s sins have been loaded. To be sure, Israel&#8217;s detergent, the carcass of the purification offering, is burned, thereby paralleling ing the Babylonian elimination procedure (see chap. 4, THEME A). Hence one can infer that the Azazel goat was originally a discrete elimination technique that was artificially attached to the sanctuary purgation in order to focus on Israel&#8217;s moral failings ings rather than on the sins and impurities that polluted the sanctuary. (3) In Babylon the impurity of the slaughterer and officiating priest lasts seven days-the remainder of the festival-whereas in Israel the impurity of the dispatcher of the goat and the burner of the purification offering carcasses lasts one day. Furthermore, the exact Israelite counterparts, the officiating priest and the slaughterer, are not rendered impure. And in Babylon, because the high priest becomes impure merely by watching ing the purgation, lower temple officials conduct the ritual. In Israel, by contrast, the entire ritual is conducted by the high priest. (4) In Babylon the king undergoes a ritual ual of humiliation: the high priest strikes his cheek, drags him by the ears, and makes him bow to the ground; tears indicate the king&#8217;s penitence and the god&#8217;s favor. His confession is within a political context; he has been a faithful custodian of the god&#8217;s temple and city and has not violated the political rights of the kidinnu (a protected group). The major difference lies in the self-reflection of the Babylonian king and the fact that he focuses on his own conduct, whereas in Israel the high priest confesses the failings of his people. In other words, in Babylon the viability of the society depends solely on the worthiness of the king; in Israel the national destiny is equated with the moral condition of the people, as articulated through the priest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* Lev. 16:29: &#8220;This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work\u2014whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you\u2014 30 because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins. 31 It is a day of sabbath rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Normally, ease and comfort are good things in Judaism, but there are occasions when you deny yourself. In general, work is highly encouraged in Judaism, but there are days such as the Sabbath and Yom Kippur when you must abstain from work. Judaism is a constellation of values. <\/p>\n<p>Lev. 17:10: &#8220;I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people. 11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one\u2019s life.[c] 12 Therefore I say to the Israelites, \u201cNone of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>13 \u201c\u2018Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, 14 because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, \u201cYou must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God gives life. Blood represents life and death. You return the blood to God. You don&#8217;t eat it. <\/p>\n<p>* Leviticus 18: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n6 \u201c\u2018No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>7 \u201c\u2018Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.<\/p>\n<p>8 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your father\u2019s wife; that would dishonor your father.<\/p>\n<p>9 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father\u2019s daughter or your mother\u2019s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>10 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your son\u2019s daughter or your daughter\u2019s daughter; that would dishonor you.<\/p>\n<p>11 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father\u2019s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.<\/p>\n<p>12 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your father\u2019s sister; she is your father\u2019s close relative.<\/p>\n<p>13 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your mother\u2019s sister, because she is your mother\u2019s close relative.<\/p>\n<p>14 \u201c\u2018Do not dishonor your father\u2019s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.<\/p>\n<p>15 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son\u2019s wife; do not have relations with her.<\/p>\n<p>16 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your brother\u2019s wife; that would dishonor your brother.<\/p>\n<p>17 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son\u2019s daughter or her daughter\u2019s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.<\/p>\n<p>18 \u201c\u2018Do not take your wife\u2019s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.<\/p>\n<p>19 \u201c\u2018Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.<\/p>\n<p>20 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor\u2019s wife and defile yourself with her.<\/p>\n<p>21 \u201c\u2018Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>22 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.<\/p>\n<p>23 \u201c\u2018Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.<\/p>\n<p>24 \u201c\u2018Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. 25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The life of Torah is one of sexual discipline. I only ever met one Orthodox Jewish nudist and he knew he was a freak and he was a baal teshuva, and he wasn&#8217;t married and he got into trouble when his predilections were discovered. Public nudity is not Jewish. <\/p>\n<p>Leviticus 19: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n9 \u201c\u2018When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.<\/p>\n<p>11 \u201c\u2018Do not steal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do not lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do not deceive one another.<\/p>\n<p>12 \u201c\u2018Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>13 \u201c\u2018Do not defraud or rob your neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.<\/p>\n<p>14 \u201c\u2018Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>15 \u201c\u2018Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.<\/p>\n<p>16 \u201c\u2018Do not go about spreading slander among your people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor\u2019s life. I am the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>17 \u201c\u2018Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.<\/p>\n<p>18 \u201c\u2018Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>19 \u201c\u2018Keep my decrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do not mate different kinds of animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* In retrospect, the Syrian strikes seem pointless and almost harmless. 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