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There came out among the Israelites a man whose mother was Israelite and whose father was Egyptian. And a fight broke out in the camp between that son of an Israelite woman<\/span> and a certain Israelite (verse 10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This story comes out of nowhere and poses a lot of questions. Who is this person? Why is it important that he was the son of an Egyptian and an Israelite woman? What fight broke out? Why do we need to know his mother\u2019s name? Why does everyone have to put their hands on his head?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi explains that the individual tried to set his tent in the tribe of Dan, his mother\u2019s tribe, and the people rejected him because he was the son of an Egyptian. Then a fight broke out between the individual and the people. In his frustration with the perceived injustice, he cursed God\u2019s name.\u00a0 According to Rashi, his mother\u2019s name is mentioned because she was a gossip and a prostitute who slept around while in Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi\u2019s reading of this story paints a very negative picture of the blasphemer and his circumstance. He was the son of an illicit relationship and he was a troublemaker who tried to buck legal norms and then lashed out when he did not get his way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash paints a slightly different picture. This person was the offspring of a rape committed by the Egyptian task master that Moses killed in the beginning of Exodus. The taskmaster was beating him to try to keep him quiet after the Egyptian raped his wife. The cursing in this version is not the same \u201cbad apple\u201d of Rashi, but more of an outsider who is constantly rejected until he lashes out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The midrash helps inform the last question: why do the leaders have to place their hands on his head? Rabbi Soloveitchik explains that \u201clet all who were within hearing lay their hands upon his head\u201d comes to teach that during the court proceeding for a blasphemer the judges themselves must hear the exact words of the curse. Everyone else in the courtroom is asked to leave. Because the judges hear the exact wording, they are complicit in the tragedy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This ending is similar to the case of an unidentified body found between two towns, discussed in Deut. 21. In that case, the leaders of the nearby towns place their hands on a cow that is killed. The leaders had a collective responsibility to look out for the stranger, and their failure to do so led to the unsolved murder. Here as well, the leaders must place their hands on the accused because it was their failure as leaders that allowed for someone to reach such depths of despair that their only recourse was to curse God.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter begins with instructions for arranging the domestic interior, as it were, of the Tent of Meeting: lighting the lamps and baking the choice breads. 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 - it is a commitment for all time on the part of the Israelites.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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>\r\n

What can we make of this?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On some level, this terse story-- jarring and graphic as it may be-- 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>\r\n

At the same time, the brief narrative exposes - ever so gently - 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\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 (vayetze<\/em>); Moses, too, witnessed fighting (vayinatzu<\/em>) without explicit cause. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then, he acted on impulse, without consulting God. 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What do we do with those people who don't quite fit in? Leviticus has presented us with the requirement to be holy, defined by many laws in many areas of our lives. What about a person who doesn't make the 'holiness' cut, who doesn't live up to all those high standards?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It's a critical question for parents, for educators, for community. A midrash, found in our chapter which itself doesn't fit in very well at all, offers a horrifyingly harsh answer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"And the son of an Israelite woman <\/span>went out<\/em>.\" Went out? From where? One midrash provides the following back story. Attempting to pitch his tent amongst the tribesmen of his mother, he meets with resistance. \"Your mother is from Dan, not your father. You don't belong here.\" Where does he belong, this son of an Egyptian man? Not in our backyard, apparently. He enters Moses' court, seeking a defender, perhaps a compassionate ear. But Moses\u2019 legal decision endorses the exclusionary politics of the tribe of Dan. Angry, bitter, rejected, the man leaves, and curses the God whose people has no place for him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah's response to this action born of pain and rejection? Public stoning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nechama Leibowitz tries to justify it, writing: \"Sometimes, the law causes individual hardship, and the victim feels unjustly treated. But it is the individual's duty to accept the hardship in the interest of the public good.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For me, that's hard to swallow, so I search for other voices, and find the following wonderfully subversive midrash which picks up on the theme of treatment of the <\/span>mamzer<\/span><\/em>, the illegitimate child but presents a very different message.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"<\/span><\/i>\"And the son of an Israelite woman went out\"- This is related to the verse: <\/span>'<\/span><\/i>And I sat and saw all of the oppressed<\/span><\/em>...' (Eccles. 4): Daniel the tailor explains that these words are talking about the plight of the <\/span>mamzer<\/span><\/em>.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>'Behold the tears of the oppressed'<\/span><\/em>-<\/em> if their fathers committed sins, why should it matter to these poor children? If their father had illicit relations- what did the child sin?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>'<\/span><\/i>And they have no one to comfort them<\/span><\/em>'<\/span><\/i> but only <\/span>'<\/span><\/i>from the hands of their oppressors is power<\/span><\/em>'<\/span><\/i>- <\/span>from the hand of the great Sanhedrin, that comes to them by the power of the Torah and distances them <\/b>because it says <\/span>'<\/span><\/i>A mamzer shall not come into the congregation of God.<\/span><\/em>'<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>'And they have no one to comfort them'<\/span>- <\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>God says- I will comfort them<\/b>, for in this world, there is chaff among you, but in the future, Zecharia says \"I saw the menorah, all gold\" (Vayikra Rabba, 32:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The court is the source of the harsh judgment excluding the <\/span>mamzer<\/span><\/em>, as Moses\u2019 court was. \u00a0But here, this constitutes oppression, a wrong that God himself seeks to right, using the image of the Menorah which strangely enough, opens our chapter. The Menorah represents essence, pure light which can be shared by all Jews, regardless of how well they fit in. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":55839,"alt":"","title":"jud12-part-whole","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole.jpg","width":1920,"height":1357,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-300x212.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":212,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-768x543.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":543,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-1024x724.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":724,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1086,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1357,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-1200x848.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":848,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-594x420.jpg","home_baner-width":594,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"What Do You Do When You Don't Fit In?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Not everybody must get stoned...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":55839,"alt":"","title":"jud12-part-whole","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole.jpg","width":1920,"height":1357,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-300x212.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":212,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-768x543.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":543,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-1024x724.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":724,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1086,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1357,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-1200x848.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":848,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud12-part-whole-594x420.jpg","home_baner-width":594,"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":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"24","chapter_main_number":"114","date":"20260204","wall_id":"114"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"712","name":"Inclusion","old_id":"1112"}]},{"order":6,"id":"46014","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Inside\/Outside ","post_title":"Inside\/Outside","slug":"inside-outside","old_id":"46014","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36423,"post_title":"Ari Hoffman","slug":"ari-hoffman","old_id":"36423","first_name":"Ari ","last_name":"Hoffman","description":"Ari Hoffman is a columnist for the Forward, where he writes about politics and culture. 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The eminent art critic T.J. Clark\u2019s recent book <\/span>Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica<\/span><\/i> focuses much of its critical attention on one of the most vital setting for Picasso, and indeed for much of the literature and art that came of age in the nineteenth century and helped to define the twentieth; the room. Classical literature had taken as its subject the large doings of heroes and empires, stretched across the broad expanse of seas and planes. The turn towards realism brought art indoors, and the domestic space became the site and scene of drama; the epic relocated to the living room, with occasional excursions to the bedroom. The room, with its human choreography and array of details, became the world in miniature.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today\u2019s chapter is a short one that transpires both inside and outside. Its first half presents the Menorah and the Showbread in an almost ekphrastic rotation. These are the landmarks of the holiest space in Jewish life, the intimate inside of the Mishkan. We can feel the quiet around them, the flickering of the flames and the tantalizing bread-smell. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second half of the chapter moves to the town square and features the enigmatic incident of the blasphemer. It is a meditation on public space and the kinetic friction produced by the interface between private belief and communal norms. Speech can be broadcast at a wide range of frequencies, from the most intimate whisper to proclamations that can reach millions. It is one of the many paradoxes of the contemporary world that we value privacy as never before, even as we are more public than we have ever been. The incident of the blasphemer raises questions of surveillance, norms, and speech that have never quite been put to rest. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We don\u2019t quite know what was said that day, but we are still wondering how to find the right words, in our own way and in our own rooms.<\/span><\/p>\r\n


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Who is the mystery man who blasphemes God\u2019s name? Cursing God was an act that was designed to shock and offend. What brought him to this point of despair and outrage?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The son of an Israelite woman and of an Egyptian man went out among the Children of Israel and the son of the Israelite woman and an Israelite man struggled in the camp.(24:10)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The verse is terse, but it reveals a disturbing back-story to this act of blasphemy, a situation \u00a0articulated by the Midrash: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The issue was one of tribal identity. The man come to pitch his tent amongst the tribe of Dan. They asked him: \"What right have you to be here?\"<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He replied: \"My mother is from Dan.\" <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>They responded: \u201cIt is written, \u2018Each man shall camp by the flag of his father's house,\u2019(Num 2:2) and not his mothers\u2019\u2026<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He entered Moses' courtroom and was pronounced guilty He emerged, stood up, and blasphemed. (Lev Rabbah 32:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here is a man with a complicated origin. His mother is Israelite and his father Egyptian. He is a fully-fledged Jew, and yet cannot establish a legal right to find his place in the camp. The Israelites themselves reject him, refusing to accept this half-caste; standing on legal details, but failing to engaging their compassion and hospitality. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And of course, where can this man encamp? And he is not the only person to experience this problem. Exodus tells us of a \u201cmixed multitude\u201d (Ex.12:38), a diverse group of ethnicities, who joined Israel on their flight from Egypt. With no Israelite roots whatsoever, what was their solution. Were they to find their place \u201coutside the camp\u201d like lepers?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We may highlight two problems.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \r\n\t
  1. The halakhic failure to find a legal way to absorb a fully-fledged Jew into the community.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The indifference and disdain by fellow Jews to this unfortunate man, who faces an impossible predicament. Where is the compassion? Do they fail to exercise their pure humanity because this man is an outsider?<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    The man takes out his bitterness and insult on God. He is hostile to a God that can create such an insensitive situation. The Torah does not tolerate the travesty of blasphemy, and yet, the rabbis of the Midrash sympathize with his pain, as they apply the verse \u201cI further observed all the oppression that goes on under the sun: the tears of the oppressed, with none to comfort them\u201d(Ecc. 4:1) to situations in which halakha generates human suffering, and they suggest that God Himself exhibits compassion to these individuals. (Lev. Rabbah 32:8) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    For me, this story is a direct call for us all to welcome and empathize with those who live at the margins of Jewish society and are struggling to find their place. If we demonstrate kindness and generosity \u201cbeyond the confines of the law,\u201d God\u2019s name rather than being assaulted and maligned, will be praised and sanctified.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    It is terrible to feel that no matter what you do, how hard you try, all forces are massed against you.\u00a0Nothing you do is right, or even good enough when you are frustrated. That's the emotion portrayed here in the midst of the section of Leviticus called the Holiness Code, chapter 17:1-26:46 by Bible scholars.<\/p>\r\n

    Why would the depiction of laws about priests and their sanctity (21:1-24), sacred offerings (22:1-33) and the timing and symbolism of holidays and the Sabbath (23:1-44) suddenly be interrupted with a narrative about the shocking behavior of an anonymous man, in chapter 24:10-16?<\/p>\r\n

    What is the background for this behavior which ends with the son of an Israelite woman and\u00a0an Egyptian man fighting with a man of full Israelite descent and pronouncing a \u201cpiercing curse\u201d on God\u2019s name in blasphemy?<\/p>\r\n

    The midrash provides one answer, with a certain emotional weight, that the language \u201cand he went out<\/em>\u201d (24:10) which opens the verse must mean he is coming from <\/em>somewhere.\u00a0Rashi's suggestion is that he has come from the courtroom of Moses where he has been told that the law is that land is appointed according to the flag of the father, stated in Numbers 2:2.\u00a0There is no sanctioned place for him in the land, as only fathers have land to pass down and without an Israelite father, there is no possibility for inheritance.<\/p>\r\n

    What is the correct reaction for this man to this irrevocable decision against him?\u00a0A piercing curse of God, so strong that everyone who hears the imprecation must participate in his stoning (24:13).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    I wonder, had the news been delivered in a subtler way, along with giving the defendant a chance to express his feelings to the court, whether there could be a change to the ruling, the defendant might not have reacted so strongly and in a way so threatening to the community as whole.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    Another commentator, Hizkuni, says that if all Israel would keep two Sabbaths in a row, no nation would ever be able to rule over them. All Israel apparently had kept the Sabbath appropriately, but on the second Sabbath, this one came and profaned it (quoting Sifrei Shelach<\/em>, 113).<\/p>\r\n

    Whenever difficult decisions have to be made, we must give opportunity to all those affected to express their feelings, and respect them; listening to another may change nothing tangible, but will allow the frustrated person some comfort and dignity. I see the frustration expressed by the expression of blasphemy as a failure of the community to enable him to attain a place in its midst and ultimately true redemption. Could it have been possible, hearing the man\u2019s concern, for the court to find an alternative solution, like allowing the man not to own land but to be a tenant farmer on land in the tribe of Dan?<\/p>\r\n

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    In the beginning of our chapter the people are commanded to kindle a lamp that would burn continually in the Tent of Meeting, the forerunner of the Temple in Jerusalem. Indeed, it is emphasized that this \u201cshall be a statute forever throughout your generations\u201d (Leviticus 24:3). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Midrash (Leviticus Rabbah 31:7 and parallels) elaborates on the light produced by this lamp, the seven-branched Menorah: \u201cThere were windows in the Temple, and from these windows light used to emanate to the world. Of Solomon\u2019s Temple it says, \u2018He made windows for the House, broad and narrow\u2019 (I Kings 6:4). How can the same windows be both broad and narrow? They narrowed toward the inside and broadened toward the outside, so that the light within would shine forth to the world. This may be contrasted to a human king, who, when he builds a palace for himself, makes the windows narrow on the outside, broadening out toward the inside in order to admit light into the interior. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But the windows of the Temple were the opposite. They were narrow on the inside broadening out toward the outside in order to emanate the light from within. How was such light created? In the beginning, the Holy One, blessed be He, enveloped Himself as with a raiment and the whole world shone with the brilliance of His radiance , as Scripture says of God, \u201cYou wrap Yourself in light like a raiment (Psalms 104:2). From where did this primordial light first shine forth? \u00a0It was from the place where, in the future, the Temple would stand in Jerusalem that cosmic light shown forth unto the world. 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    In this parsha God, through Moshe, gives us the most detailed list and explanation of the chagim \u2013 Jewish holidays \u2013 found in the Torah. We present the chagim as described in Parshat Emor. Can you guess which chag is being described? To learn more with Susan Yammer, download the newest Interactive Parasha Experience<\/a><\/p>\r\n

    And if you have older kids or teens, be sure to check out our\u00a0Parasha Discussion<\/a>\u00a0for a more mature conversation.<\/p>\r\n

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    Parshat Emor deals with two kinds of holiness: that of people and of time. Chapter 21 relates to holy people: Priests, and above them, the High Priest. Their close contact with the Sanctuary means that they must live with certain restrictions: on contact with the dead and whom they may marry. Chapter 22 recaps similar laws relating to ordinary Israelites when they seek to enter the Sanctuary, as well as imperfections in animals that mean they cannot be offered as sacrifices. Chapter 23 is about holy time, the festivals of the year. Chapter 24 speaks about the Menorah, lit daily, and the show bread, renewed weekly, and ends with a story \u2013 one of the only two stories in the book of Vayikra \u2013 about a man who blasphemed in the course of a fight.<\/p>\r\n

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    \"And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Command the Children of Israel to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, in order to maintain an eternal light.'\" (Leviticus 24:1-2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    O Lord of light, the moment we awake
    \r\n<\/span>We run to open shutters, as we wait
    \r\n<\/span>To see the coming dawn eliminate
    \r\n<\/span>The darkness of our night. But no \u2014 the break
    \r\n<\/span>Of day is but a tiny, shallow lake
    \r\n<\/span>Of light that seas of blackness inundate
    \r\n<\/span>And overwhelm; no sunrays terminate
    \r\n<\/span>The shadows, Lord, the shadows of the snake.
    \r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When will illumination come? Our eyes
    \r\n<\/span>Perceive no stars or comets in the sky,
    \r\n<\/span>While here on earth, we're blinded by the night.
    \r\n<\/span>The snake has spread its venom with its lies
    \r\n<\/span>That in the shadows, all God's candles die.
    \r\n<\/span>O when will You proclaim, \"Let there be light!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. Pure<\/em>. In the context of the very purified, even sterile environment of the Mishkan, it\u2019s a little strange to emphasize \u201cthe pure lampstand\u201d (verse 4) and \u201cthe pure table\u201d (6). This leads many interpreters to suggest that these vessels are termed thus because they are made of pure gold.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. Bon appetit!<\/em> The 12 loaves are eaten over the course of a week in the Sanctuary by the priests, \u201cThey shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who shall eat them in the sacred precinct; for they are his as most holy things from the LORD\u2019s offerings by fire\u201d (verse 9).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. B\u2019rit olam.<\/em> Why specifically is the bread \u201ca commitment for all time\u201d (<\/span>b\u2019rit olam <\/span><\/em>- <\/span><\/i>verse 8)?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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