{"id":45370,"date":"2018-12-09T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45370"},"modified":"2022-07-03T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:37:49","slug":"the-particulars-of-a-new-moral-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-particulars-of-a-new-moral-order\/","title":{"rendered":"The Particulars Of A New Moral Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[740,415,436,762],"acf":{"old_id":"45370","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34285,"related_cahpter":"107","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Food at the center: we act out our values each time we sit down to eat","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leviticus chapter 11 delivers a clear mandate about which animals can be eaten and which are off limits. Chapter 17 adds two more layers to the rules around eating meat. Sacrifices must only be offered at the one, legitimate altar, and under no circumstances can blood be consumed. \u00a0Verse 4 uses strong words to condemn a person who violates these terms, \u201cblood-guilt shall be imputed to that man: he has shed blood; that man shall be cut off from among his people.\u201d Why? So that the Israelites will stop offering their sacrifices in the open, wherever they choose, and will commit to the practice of centralized worship in the tabernacle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leviticus drives home the difficulty of this expectation. For one, the legal section concludes by saying that the law is intended to curb the offering of sacrifices to goat demons \u201cafter whom they stray\u201d. In other words, during the years in the desert&#8211; even after Sinai and the dedication of the mishkan &#8212; \u00a0idol worship was alive and well among the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, our verses echo Genesis 9, when God establishes a series of rules with Noah and his descendants. There, after the flood, mankind is granted permission to eat meat but are warned not to eat the blood; furthermore, whoever sheds the blood of man \u201cby man shall his blood be shed.\u201d In Leviticus, a person who offers a sacrifice outside the sacred center is compared to a person who has murdered. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is the parallel nothing more than hyperbole?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would suggest that the direct echo of Genesis 9 underscores a parallel between these two moments. After the flood, mankind needed to learn how to live again; with new guidelines, in a new moral order. Here, in the midst of the desert, the Israelites are also learning to live with a new reality. Shedding long-ingrained practices and growing comfortable with the worldview of monotheism was a gradual, difficult process. 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