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The people, the priests and God are all harmoniously entwined: the people bring the oil, the priests bake the bread, God\u2019s presence resides in the Tent. The 8th verse captures this triangle of committed, engaged players: \u201cHe [the priest] shall arrange them before the Lord regularly every sabbath day &#8211; it is a commitment for all time on the part of the Israelites.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, for the second time in Leviticus, a short narrative disrupts the highly ordered scene. As in the first disruption in chapter 10 (Nadav and Avihu), there are few characters; there is violence; God\u2019s response is decisive. In our chapter, the story is so incredibly compressed; each word seems to bear the potential for a long and rich backstory. In the midst of a fight between two men, one of hybrid birth curses, indeed blasphemes God, and he is brought to Moses. Moses is unsure what to do and so he waits for God\u2019s judgement. When it comes, the people are instructed to stone the blasphemer outside the camp. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What can we make of this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On some level, this terse story&#8211; jarring and graphic as it may be&#8211; humanizes and offers dynamism to an otherwise static scene. By interrupting and encroaching on the divine-human equilibrium, it reminds us that people engaged in relationship with God is never quite so linear or clean. Our composite, layered reality as humans is part of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, the brief narrative exposes &#8211; ever so gently &#8211; the buried fault-lines within the people and within the life-story of Moses, their leader. The nation as a whole still bears its Egyptian past; indeed, as the Midrash relates, a good portion of the people are Egyptian-born. This collective \u201c<em>\u2018am,<\/em>\u201d people, has streams and diverse paths within it, tenuously held together as one. And Moses, who now stands poised as the mediator between God and nation, still holds within the memory of his early, unsteady moments as a leader. Like the blasphemer, Moses had a hybrid background. Like him, he, too, \u201cwent out\u201d (<em>vayetze<\/em>); Moses, too, witnessed fighting (<em>vayinatzu<\/em>) without explicit cause. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, he acted on impulse, without consulting God. 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