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This week’s Parashah, Parashat Beha’alotcha, Bamidbar \/ Numbers 8:1-9:14<\/em><\/font> This week’s Parashah, Parashat Beha’alotcha, Bamidbar \/ Numbers 8:1-9:14
\nGod commands Moshe to cleanse the Cohanim (Priests) for service in the Mishkhan (Tabernacle) in 8:6<\/em>
\n<\/font>. Sprinkling purifying water, shaving their entire bodies, and washing their cloths, they will be clean
\n(8:7<\/em><\/font>). An offering is made in the blood of a bull for sin and a grain offering
\nmixed with oil (8:8<\/em><\/font>). Then the Cohanim were presented before God and before the
\npeople (8:9<\/em><\/font>) as a wave offering and they then were qualified to perform the service
\nbefore the Lord (8:11<\/em><\/font>). Scripture goes on to say that the Lord will take the
\nLevites instead of every first born of Yisrael drawing a parallel with the Passover and the first born dying (
\n8:16<\/em><\/font>). The Lord then spoke to Moshe instructing the Children of Yisrael to observe the Pesach (Passover)
\nfestival saying that the Pesach festival is so important even a person who has touched a dead person and become unclean must still
\nobserve the festival (9:9<\/em><\/font>). While studying these scriptures, it is interesting
\nto note that the Hebrew text does not literally say touching a “dead person” as the English text implies. The text
\nsays 9:10 daber el-benei yisrael lemor ish ish ki-yihye
\ntame lanefesh<\/font> o vederekh rekhoka lakhem o ledoroteikhem veasa fesakh laadonai:<\/em><\/font> meaning “unclean for
\nthe soul\/life” and not a “dead body.” What can we understand about God’s holy festival that is
\nso significant even if one becomes unclean by reason of the “life of a person” they still need to observe the
\nPesach (Passover) Festival?
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