{"id":45720,"date":"2018-12-15T19:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45720"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:59:06","slug":"how-one-word-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/how-one-word-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Word Changes Everything"},"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":[773,480,631],"acf":{"old_id":"45720","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":44687,"related_cahpter":"111","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Holiness becomes dynamic, changing, and a new theology is born","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leviticus 21 begins by stating that no priest should desecrate himself. The Hebrew word for \u201cdesecrate,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chillel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, never appears in the earlier chapters of Leviticus. This may be surprising because chapters 1-16 address all sorts of impurities that can have a negative impact on God\u2019s holy places and things. Chapters 1-16 do not address desecration because the theology of those chapters is that holiness is stable and static. God is holy, the priests are holy, sacred vessels are holy. A priest may incur ritual impurity, but he is still holy by virtue of his status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By contrast, Leviticus 20 and 21 use the word \u201cdesecration\u201d ten times! The insertion of this new word into the book of Leviticus suggests that a new theology emerges in the second half of the Book of Leviticus. The fact that God\u2019s name and the priests can be desecrated means that holiness is no longer perceived as stable and static. While many biblical scholars believe that we ought to understand the word \u201cdesecrate\u201d metaphorically, I believe that the meaning is literal. Just as Leviticus 19 taught that people ought to strive toward holiness, Leviticus 21 teaches that wrongdoing can actually diminish holiness in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This new principle is an overlay upon the theology of Leviticus 1-16. This perspective teaches that in addition to the ritual impurities that threaten to drive God\u2019s presence from the community, our actions in the world and our interactions with other people have a real impact on God\u2019s relationship with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I find a modern analogy useful in understanding this idea. When members of a community are at their best &#8211; treating others with respect and fulfilling their obligations \u2013 everyone feels the positive energy and that energy fuels more positive and healthy relationships. 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