Leviticus 21:1-24:23 1st portion | 2nd portion | 3rd portion | 4th portion | 5th portion | 6th portion | 7th portion | Complete
MEDITATION: Can I be disqualified from serving the L-RD?
2nd Portion
Chapter 21
16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17. Speak to Aaron, saying: Any man among your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect, shall not come near to offer up his God's food. 18. For any man who has a defect should not approach: A blind man or a lame one, or one with a sunken nose or with mismatching limbs; 19. or a man who has a broken leg or a broken arm; 20. or one with long eyebrows, or a cataract, or a commingling in his eye; dry lesions or weeping sores, or one with crushed testicles 21. Any man among Aaron the kohen's offspring who has a defect shall not draw near to offer up the Lord's fire offerings. There is a defect in him; he shall not draw near to offer up his God's food. 22. His God's food from the most holy and from the holy ones, he may eat. 23. But he shall not come to the dividing curtain, nor shall he draw near to the altar, for he has a defect, and he shall not desecrate My holy things, for I am the Lord Who sanctifies them. 24. Moses told [this to] Aaron and his sons, and to all of the children of Israel.
Chapter 22
1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2. Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they shall separate themselves from the holy [sacrifices] of the children of Israel, which they sanctify to Me, so as not to desecrate My Holy Name. I am the Lord. 3. Say to them: Throughout your generations, any man among any of your offspring who, while his defilement is still upon him, comes near to the holy sacrifices that the children of Israel consecrate to the Lord that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am the Lord. 4. Any man whatsoever among Aaron's offspring if he has tzara'ath or has had a discharge, he shall not eat of the holy sacrifices, until he cleanses himself. And one who touches anyone who has become unclean [by contact with a dead] person, or a man from whom semen issued, 5. or a man who touches any creeping creature through which he becomes unclean or a person through whom he becomes unclean, whatever his uncleanness 6. the person who touches it shall remain unclean until evening, and he shall not eat from the holy things unless he has immersed his flesh in water. 7. When the sun sets, he becomes clean, and afterwards, he may eat of the holy things, for it is his food. 8. He shall not eat a carcass or anything that was torn, thereby becoming unclean through it. I am the Lord. 9. They shall keep My charge and not bear a sin by [eating] it [while unclean] and thereby die through it since they will have desecrated it. I am the Lord Who sanctifies them. 10. No non kohen may eat holy things; a kohen's resident and his hireling may not eat holy things. 11. And if a kohen acquires a person, an acquisition through his money, he may eat of it, and those born in his house they may eat of his food. 12. And if a kohen's daughter is married to a non kohen, she may [no longer] eat of the separated holy things. 13. But if the kohen's daughter becomes widowed or divorced, and she has no offspring she may return to her father's household as in her youth [and] eat of her father's food, but no non kohen may eat of it. 14. And if a man unintentionally eats what is holy, he shall add a fifth of it to it and give the kohen the holy thing. 15. And they shall not desecrate the holy things of the children of Israel, those that they have set aside for the Lord, 16. thereby bringing upon themselves to bear iniquity and guilt, when they eat their holy things, for I am the Lord Who sanctifies them.
INTROSPECT: Why does G-d choose to accept my devotion to Him?
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