Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Tzav” (Leviticus chapters 6 through 8).

The first unique word in the portion is ‘tzav’, or COMMAND, Aaron and his sons, concerning more specifics associated with various types of offerings. And, it’s important to note that the word translated as “this is the LAW” of these activities is again the root word ‘torah,’ and clearly makes more sense if we understand that this is INSTRUCTION about them.

For many obvious reasons, we can’t DO them, but we can study the instruction to try to understand what we are being taught.

The Erev Shabbat reading:

We no longer have a temple, or mishkan. Nor cohenim to make the offerings. Except for admonitions like “don’t eat blood,” none of these things can really be done.

Meanwhile, we live in a world where even the commandments and judgments which still obviously DO apply are scoffed at. Or worse.

Which is why some “compare and contrast” with where we find ourselves today, relative to history, and prophecy, should be informative.

Mark suggests we are at a ‘cusp,’ or turning point, but almost like the “calm before the storm.” Consider “dishonest weights and measures,” for example. Whatever the new President’s intention, he inherited a fiat dollar that Scripture calls “abomination,” and which WILL ultimately collapse. The question is not ‘IF,’ but when. And, what will survive? But Scripture and prophecy give us an answer there, too.

Tzav: Do We Still Trust in Lying Words?

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash: