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Kosher curricula: What are we supposed to learn from meticulous attention to food?Hosea and Hebrews: Shadows of heart connection with HeavenEating with ‘tax collectors and sinners’Big sins, big repentance, big forgiveness: Lessons and warnings from the lives of Manasseh and AaronForgiveness for the mastermind of the Golden Calf
The Torah reading צו Tzav (“command,” Lev. 6:8–8:36) gives us the “show and tell” of how Israel’s high priest and the other priests were ordained and dedicated to God. Moses was showing Aaron and their sons how to do their work. You can give someone a book to read but we learn better when we can also watch and see how the task is to be performed.
Most of the ceremony was public, at least for the men of the community who were clean. This was the last time Moses conducted any sacrifices to God.
Kosher curricula: What are we supposed to learn from meticulous attention to food?
“Also the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.” Leviticus 6:28 NASB
This verse is where we find the general rules on how to make cooking items in our kitchen kosher. Metal or glass pots and utensils that make contact with unclean meats can be scoured and cleaned with soap and water while earthen vessels, plastic or wooden items that make contact with unclean meat have to be thrown out.
I actually had a “kosher emergency” in my house not too long ago. Someone came to visit and brought a container with a shrimp dish in it to my home. When they were finished eating, they put the container in my sink, where my other dirty dishes were sitting. I threw away all the plastic and wood items that were in the sink with the shrimp dish. All the metal items had to be scoured throughly and cleaned. I did all of this because unclean food was put into my sink.
“So whoever breaks one of the least [important] of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least [important] in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:19 Amplified Bible
I took this “kosher emergency” with the shrimp in my sink as a learning experience. It was not so much learning how to clean my kitchen than a lesson in diligence in all areas of life, even my spiritual life. How diligent am I in following God’s instructions? What example do I present to those around me?
I don’t want to be in that category of disobeying even the littlest commandments and teaching others to do so as well. I just want to be in the Kingdom, but I don’t want to be at the bottom.
It’s important to keep the ritual items of the tabernacle clean but it’s also important to keep our homes clean. It’s also important to keep ourselves spiritually clean.
With most things in the Torah, where there is a law, there is an example of someone breaking it. These lessons are important so we can understand how God t...
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By Hallel FellowshipIn this study
Kosher curricula: What are we supposed to learn from meticulous attention to food?Hosea and Hebrews: Shadows of heart connection with HeavenEating with ‘tax collectors and sinners’Big sins, big repentance, big forgiveness: Lessons and warnings from the lives of Manasseh and AaronForgiveness for the mastermind of the Golden Calf
The Torah reading צו Tzav (“command,” Lev. 6:8–8:36) gives us the “show and tell” of how Israel’s high priest and the other priests were ordained and dedicated to God. Moses was showing Aaron and their sons how to do their work. You can give someone a book to read but we learn better when we can also watch and see how the task is to be performed.
Most of the ceremony was public, at least for the men of the community who were clean. This was the last time Moses conducted any sacrifices to God.
Kosher curricula: What are we supposed to learn from meticulous attention to food?
“Also the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.” Leviticus 6:28 NASB
This verse is where we find the general rules on how to make cooking items in our kitchen kosher. Metal or glass pots and utensils that make contact with unclean meats can be scoured and cleaned with soap and water while earthen vessels, plastic or wooden items that make contact with unclean meat have to be thrown out.
I actually had a “kosher emergency” in my house not too long ago. Someone came to visit and brought a container with a shrimp dish in it to my home. When they were finished eating, they put the container in my sink, where my other dirty dishes were sitting. I threw away all the plastic and wood items that were in the sink with the shrimp dish. All the metal items had to be scoured throughly and cleaned. I did all of this because unclean food was put into my sink.
“So whoever breaks one of the least [important] of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least [important] in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:19 Amplified Bible
I took this “kosher emergency” with the shrimp in my sink as a learning experience. It was not so much learning how to clean my kitchen than a lesson in diligence in all areas of life, even my spiritual life. How diligent am I in following God’s instructions? What example do I present to those around me?
I don’t want to be in that category of disobeying even the littlest commandments and teaching others to do so as well. I just want to be in the Kingdom, but I don’t want to be at the bottom.
It’s important to keep the ritual items of the tabernacle clean but it’s also important to keep our homes clean. It’s also important to keep ourselves spiritually clean.
With most things in the Torah, where there is a law, there is an example of someone breaking it. These lessons are important so we can understand how God t...