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Parashat Shemini<\/em> (“Eighth”) describes the consecration ceremony for the Tabernacle, which took place after seven days of preparation.<\/p>\n

What are the characteristics of the various kinds of animals that are considered unclean? How does obeying a prohibition regarding animals convey a measure of holiness, to fulfill, as God commanded: \u201cyou shall sanctify yourselves and be holy for I am holy (Lev. 11:45)?<\/p>\n

Avner Moriah\u2019s painting for this parasha<\/em> is a figural template consisting of eight rows with five animals in each row. Read from right to left and top to bottom it corresponds to the text\u2019s list of forbidden animals. The top row represents animals that walk on land and are mentioned by name as they either do not have cloven feet or do not chew their cud. Thus we see a camel, a daman, a hare, and a wild pig. The fifth animal belongs to the group of forbidden aquatic creatures, for which the “cleanness” criterion is the possession of fins and scales. There are two more water creatures in the second row \u2013 apparently a shell fish and a shark \u2013 neither of which has both fins and scales.<\/p>\n

Images of birdlike creatures for which there is no general category defining them as unclean finishes the second row and fills the next four: \u201cThe following you shall abominate among the birds \u2013 they shall not be eaten; they are an abomination\u201d (Lev. 11:13). Their names appear in the biblical text as: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the falcon, the raven, the ostrich, the night hawk, the seagull, the hawk, the small owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the pelican, the bustard, the stork, the heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.<\/p>\n

Insects, reptiles, and rodents \u2013 all forbidden \u2013 appear next: \u201cThe swarming things that swarm upon the Earth: the mole, the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind, and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon\u201d (Lev. 11:29\u201330).<\/p>\n

By visualizing all the animals mentioned by name in Leviticus 11 on a poster, the artist is suggesting the need to review these creatures and to know not to eat them or even to touch them after they are dead. By learning and accepting the rules that God gave to the priests to \u201cdistinguish between the sacred and the profane and between the clean and the unclean\u201d (Lev. 10:10), the Israelites came to understand their obligation to imitate their priests and their God and to live with a sense of holiness.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to understand the rationale behind the entire given list of unclean creatures, but apparently the simple enumeration of such a list was designed to guide the Israelites toward a disciplined existence that would imitate the holiness of God. 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