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Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, lamb or goat and has not brought it to the [altar at the] entrance to the Tent of Meeting, to bring it as an offering to God before the tabernacle of God, blood shall be imputed upon him, for he has shed blood, and he shall be uprooted from his people. So that the children of Israel shall bring that which they slaughter\u2026 to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to the priest. And they shall no longer slaughter their offerings to the demons after whom they stray\u201d (Verses 3-9).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now that the Mishkan is fully functional, God establishes it as the exclusive point of worship. Rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein points out that the Torah needs to focus on idol worship as the motivation for Mishkan exclusivity because of the state of the people at this time. As evident from the sin of the Golden Calf, the people were still very much steeped in Egyptian pagan mythology. The Mishkan was a way to channel that energy towards the worship of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In order to do that, all other outside forms of worship needed to cease. The struggle of the people to keep this ordinance appears throughout the books of Prophets even before the kingdom split under the sons of Solomon. In fact, the pull of sacrificing on personal altars was so strong that before the construction of the Temple, there were long periods of time where these <\/span>bamot<\/span><\/i> were allowed despite the existence of the Mishkan. These were usually times when the Mishkan was not in a fully established location. After the completion of the Temple, all <\/span>bamot <\/span><\/i>were forbidden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later, after the split of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms, King Jeroboam faced a dilemma. While his kingdoms ceded from the tribe of Judah, Jerusalem and the Temple were still the central focus of korbanot and worship of God. To counter this, he built two new altars, one in the northernmost part of his territory and one in the south. His goal was to undo the commandment here in chapter 17 and to keep the people away from the Southern Kingdom. He took the reasoning behind this commandment and used it against God and the Southern Kingdom. This is why these two <\/span>bamot <\/span><\/i>are continuously referenced during the Northern Kingdom. As long as there was an alternative to the central location to worship God, the people easily returned to pagan worship of the world around them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Read the many posts for today's chapter that explore the questions:<\/p>\r\n

Is Eating Meat A Form of Sanctioned Murder? Does Mindfulness Matter?<\/p>\r\n

And what's the connection between blood and life? 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\u201cMeat comes from the grocery store, where it is cut and packaged to look as little like parts of animals as possible. The disappearance of animals from our lives has opened a space in which there\u2019s no reality check, either on the sentiment or the brutality.\u201d Food author Michael Pollan\u2019s observation in the New York Times is also true for many modern Jews who keep kosher. \u201cChecking\u201d food to ensure it meets our kashrut standards primarily involves letters, circles and stars we find on packaging, rather than checking lungs, blood or sinews.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Leviticus 17 is filled with rules legislating aspects of the meat production process that are\u2014for many of us\u2014unfamiliar and uncomfortable. Who has the right to kill animals intended for consumption? What is done with the blood?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This past year I had the privilege of studying shechita<\/em>\u2014the rules and practice of kosher slaughter\u2014under Rabbi Shlomo Zacharov at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. One of the practices we studied comes from verse 13: anyone who kills a bird for food \u201cshall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.\u201d This mitzvah of <\/span>kisui dam<\/span><\/em> (covering the blood) is one we still observe to this day for chickens and other fowl.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before \u201cshechting\u201d (ritually slaughtering), we make sure earth is placed on the ground and once the process has been completed, we \u201ccover\u201d the blood with more earth. We read three times in Chapter 17 that the \u201csoul\u201d of a creature is in its blood. This \u201cburial\u201d practice forces us to pause after we have taken a life to honor the animal whose flesh will find its way onto our plate. 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Leviticus 17 employs the legal terminology of murder to the improper killing of a sacrificial animal, i.e., a sheep, goat, or large cattle. When an Israelite slaughters a sacrificial animal without making it a sacrifice, for Leviticus 17, it is the equivalent of shedding human blood! Verse 4 says that <\/span>dam yechashev la\u2019ish ha-hu, dam shafakh<\/span><\/em>, \u201cBloodguilt will be imputed to that man, he has shed blood.\u201d Jacob Milgrom writes that, \u201cThe accusation is one of murder, equivalent to the one who by spilling the blood of a human being forfeits his life.\u201d <\/span>Dam shafakh<\/span><\/em> is an expression used in Genesis 9:6 and elsewhere for the intentional murder of a human being. Milgrom explains that the slaughter of an animal can only be expiated if its blood is returned to its Creator via the sacrificial altar.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After all, God\u2019s intention in Genesis 1:29-30 \u00a0was that humankind be vegetarian; eating meat was only post-flood concession to the human tendency to violence, but only if the animal\u2019s blood was not consumed (Genesis 9:4). Therefore, Leviticus uses the charge of bloodshed to motivate the Israelite to utilize an authorized altar rather than slaughter the animal in a non-sacrificial setting. \u00a0Now, if the person who slaughters an animal in this illegitimate manner is indeed guilty of murder, why is he\/she not punished with capital punishment? The only punishment mentioned in Leviticus 17 is <\/span>karet<\/span><\/em>,\u201ccutting off,\u201d the premature termination of one\u2019s family line (v.9), a punishment imposed by God. When a person is murdered, the \u201credeemer of blood,\u201d or closest relative, is responsible for the execution of the guilty party. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Innocent animals, however, have no \u201credeemer of blood\u201d as do humans, so God plays the role of the animal\u2019s \u201credeemer.\u201d \u00a0Baruch Levine terms the use the language of homicide in this case as \u201chyperbole,\u201d and while that it true, evident is the seriousness with which the Torah views the slaughter of animals and the illicit disposal of their blood.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I have never lived on a farm nor have I ever slaughtered an animal. I have friends who have shared their experiences with me, but I know the limits of second-hand descriptions. As a biblical scholar who focuses a lot of my study in the Book of Leviticus, I decided to do the next best thing: watch YouTube videos!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I spent several days watching dozens of videos on animal slaughter in the United States. Some videos documented mass farm factories and other videos highlighted humane locally based slaughterhouses. Apart from feeling quite sick and disturbed, I noticed one central aspect of all these videos. Whether local or large industry, whether humanely oriented or efficiency oriented, in every video I witnessed the blood of the animals fall onto the floors, where hoses would wash the blood down into sewers on the floors. This was one of the most disturbing images for me and I believe that my knowledge of Leviticus 17 influenced my experience.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first law in Leviticus 17 stipulates that any Israelite who slaughters cattle, sheep or goats for meat out in the fields instead of slaughtering the animal by God\u2019s altar with the help of a priest would face negative repercussions. Most modern readers encounter this biblical material with little interest, since we do not slaughter our own meat and we have no altars to God. However, this material is worthy of our attention. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In verse 5, the text subtly transforms the status of farm animals from sources of meat to sacred thanksgiving offerings. The Bible teaches that blood is the source of life or the animating force of the body. To kill an animal for its meat and to experience the bloodiness as a by-product is akin to murder. How different to offer the blood to God in a sacred context in which the lost life is acknowledged, and then to consume the meat after the ritual ensures that every source of meat is identified as a life lost.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For those of us who are carnivores, Leviticus 17 urges us to be mindful each time we eat meat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Does the Torah think that it's murder to kill an animal for food? Anyone with any rudimentary knowledge of Judaism would confidently answer: of course not! In fact, just the opposite! The Torah commands us to worship God carnivorously. The highest expression of religious service in Leviticus is a barbecue in the Mishkan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But actually, according to Leviticus 17, in certain circumstances, killing an animal is called murder. \"It will be considered like blood for this man, he has spilled blood, and he will be cut off from his nation.\" The shocking nature of this statement needs to be digested slowly. The requirement to bring all animals to the Mishkan for slaughter is understandable, and we can see that it would be sinful to ignore this requirement. But the punishment of <\/span>karet<\/span><\/i>? And to call it the \"spilling of blood\"?! It seems to be taking things a little too far, doesn't it?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The phrase 'he has spilled blood' in relation to the animal sends us back to Genesis, chapter 9. In the aftermath of the flood, God commands Noah and his sons- \"He who spills the blood of man, by man will his own blood be spilled.\" This commandment regarding the taking of human life is made in contrast to the new permission granted to take animal life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before the flood, it seems, people were vegetarians. Spilling animal blood had been as severe as spilling human blood. Fundamentally, it still was, even after the flood. The permission to eat meat was granted reluctantly, out of God's renewed post-flood relationship with mankind which was more accepting of human foibles. This permission came with limits, in order to maintain an element of the ideal. \"However, meat, with its spirit in its blood, you cannot eat\". Eating a limb from a live animal is still forbidden.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The service of the Mishkan presented a realistic opportunity to further restrict meat consumption, and to move mankind closer to the ideal of Eden. And so, the relationship between blood and spirit was given new, more stringent legal expression, and the killing of animals outside the confines of these limitations was tantamount to murder, no less.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These limitations again were relaxed when circumstances changed, the Jews entered the land of Israel, and it became unrealistic to expect them to limit all meat consumption to the Mikdash.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although the Torah's ideal might be vegetarianism, it certainly doesn't make that demand in reality. What it does do throughout, in various ways in various periods of our history, is to demand that we move ourselves in the direction of that ideal. And so the question we are left to ask ourselves is- how much closer to that ideal can we bring ourselves?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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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>\r\n

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-- even after Sinai and the dedication of the mishkan -- \u00a0idol worship was alive and well among the people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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>\r\n

Is the parallel nothing more than hyperbole?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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. That food is at the center of both of these moments should not surprise us. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\"Whoever from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who sojourn among you, who eats any manner of blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.<\/span>\" <\/span>(Leviticus 17:10)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the silence of the summer's desert night I stare at the stars and recall
\r\nHow beautiful are your palaces, O Egypt,
\r\nHow awesome your Temple of Amon, O Karnak,
\r\nHow illustrious your hundred gates, O Thebes<\/p>\r\n

II.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We slaves could eat only onions, garlic and onions.
\r\nBut when I worked as a serving-boy in my master\u2019s banquet-hall
\r\nI could smell the tantalizing scent of crocodile-meat soaked in blood.
\r\nOnce, during the Feast of the Birth of Horus,
\r\nMy master, drunk, threw me a piece.
\r\nI remember the taste still.<\/p>\r\n

One autumn morning I accompanied my master\u2019s son
\r\nWhere I first saw how gladiators, prisoners-of-war from Kush,
\r\nCould gain freedom by clubbing their opponent to death,
\r\nBreaking skulls and bones and dipping their hands in the blood.<\/p>\r\n

When my master\u2019s son was appointed as one of Pharaoh\u2019s charioteers,
\r\nI was allowed to watch the army parade by as it went off to battle in Nubia
\r\nFor the greater glory of Pharaoh.
\r\nFirst marched the foot-soldiers,
\r\nHands held upright
\r\nAnd in goose-steps,
\r\nVowing their oath of homage as they pledged,
\r\n\u201cWe who march to your victories salute you
\r\nAnd swear our allegiance to you, O Pharaoh,
\r\nFather of the Nile, sun of the nations.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

III.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One spring night during the Festival of the Full-Moon,
\r\nI went to the Temple of Hathor
\r\nWhere the young priestess chose me above all the others
\r\nAnd allowed me to drink from the sacred goblet of red wine spiced with pig\u2019s blood,
\r\nBefore she initiated me into the rites of Hathor, our holy mother of Eternal-Life,
\r\nIn the light of the full moon.<\/p>\r\n

IV.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If I forget you,
\r\nMay my right hand lose its cunning,
\r\nMay my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,
\r\nIf I do not set you,
\r\nO Egypt,
\r\nAbove my chiefest joy.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":104378,"alt":"","title":"-6268cc4bb650c--6268cc4bb650eex10-egyptian sun 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\u201cAcharei Mot - Kedoshim: meat eating and sacrifices\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Nelly Altenburger: What is the relationship between animal sacrifice and meat-eating? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cA Semi-Comprehensive Understanding of Demons\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Zohar Wittenberg: Demons? In Jewish sources!?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Sacred and profane<\/em>. Did we mention that we are moving on into the civil realm? note just how much the sacred is bound up in life there as well.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Boundaries?<\/em> The reason for the prohibition against slaughtering for food in any place sounds like education for boundaries. For if you slaughter just anywhere, in the end you might offer sacrifices anywhere, and to anyone or anything.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Blood and atonement<\/em>. It\u2019s complicated: \u201cFor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have assigned it to you for making expiation for your lives upon the altar; it is the blood, as life, that effects expiation\u201d (verse 11).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Covering the blood<\/em> (13). Why? To destroy evidence? As a sort of burial? \u201cAshes to ashes, dust to dust?\u201d Something else?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The ger<\/em>, foreigner<\/em>. Mentioned 5 times, primarily to communicate the fact that they are to be treated exactly the same as everybody else.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Leviticus 17","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"17","chapter_main_number":"107","date":"20260126","wall_id":"107"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/45293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}