{"id":45442,"date":"2018-12-10T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45442"},"modified":"2023-04-27T16:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:48:37","slug":"national-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/national-purity\/","title":{"rendered":"National Purity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[480,436,742],"acf":{"old_id":"45442","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36149,"related_cahpter":"108","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Not just a matter of personal choice, holiness is a very public morality: the stakes of misbehavior can have national, even cosmic, significance.","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leviticus Chapter 18 appears towards the beginning of a part of Leviticus known by scholars as the Holiness Code, named after repeated exhortations to be holy, most famously at Leviticus 19:2: \u201cYou shall be holy, for I, the LORD your God, am holy.\u201d The Holiness Code does not deal with the bodily forms of impurity outlined in Leviticus 11-15. Nevertheless it, too, is concerned with impurity, merely of a different source and mode of contagion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to this system, acting immorally contaminates the Community and contaminates the Land. Notably, Leviticus 18 bookends its list of moral guidelines by contrasting Egyptian and Canaanite behavior with how the Israelites are expected to act. (18.3,24-25). The passage asserts that the Israelites\u2019 Egyptian overlords engaged in immoralities, which the Israelites left behind in the triumphs of Exodus. Moreover, the Israelites conquer Canaan by virtue of the Land vomiting out the sinning, immoral Canaanites, and they need to act appropriately in order to remain in the Land. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This national form of impurity, sometimes called \u201cmoral impurity,\u201d had largely been forgotten by traditional Jewish readers. Indeed, for Jews in the Diaspora who had already been \u201cvomited out\u201d of the Land, the political reasoning of the demand to maintain moral lives was rendered moot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, with the massive immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel beginning in the nineteenth century, the Holiness Code\u2019s message was seen as applicable again \u2013 particularly by pious Jews who were profoundly concerned about the strict demands of living in holiness. From this perspective, which became popular with some groups of religious Jews, dwelling in the Land is a mixed blessing \u2013 a great privilege, yes, but one that demands an extremely high degree of moral and ethical piety where the stakes of misbehavior can have national, even cosmic, significance.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"National Purity","main_caption":"Not just a matter of personal choice, holiness is a very public morality: the stakes of misbehavior can have national, even cosmic, significance.","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114463,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45442\/revisions\/114463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}