{"id":1135,"date":"2011-05-02T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2011\/5\/2\/Parashat-Emor-The-Importance-of-Sanctifying-the-Name-of-the-Lord"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:23:29","slug":"parashat-emor-the-importance-of-sanctifying-the-name-of-the-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-emor-the-importance-of-sanctifying-the-name-of-the-lord-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Emor, The Importance of Sanctifying the Name of the Lord."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>In this week&rsquo;s Parashat, Parashat Emor, from the Triennial Cycle (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus 21:1-22:16<\/em><\/font>) the Lord speaks to Moshe telling him to speak to the priests<br \/>\nand the sons of Aharon.&nbsp; Moshe gives the priests and the sons of Aharon the miztvot (commands) (i) to<br \/>\nnot defile themselves by touching a dead person except if it is a close relative and the priest that is<br \/>\nanointed by oil shall not defile himself by touching any dead person (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>21:1-2,<br \/>\nand 11<\/em><\/font>), (ii) to sanctify their marriage by choosing a good spouse (see <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<em>21:4, 7, and 13-16<\/em><\/font>), (iii) to not shave the edges of their beards or make cuts in their flesh,<br \/>\nand (iv) no man who has a defect shall make an offering before the Lord (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>21:17-23<\/em><\/font>).<br \/>\n&nbsp; The last part of the reading from the Triennial Cycle (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>22:1-19<\/em><\/font>)<br \/>\ndiscusses when one has any kind of uncleanness he may not eat of the holy things and the daughter that was married is<br \/>\nwidowed, who returns to her father&rsquo;s house may eat of the holy thing.&nbsp; Throughout the portion this week we<br \/>\nfind the repeated phrase <em>&ldquo;Kedoshim yihyu leloheyhem ve&rsquo;lo yekhllu shem eloheyhem&rdquo;<\/em> meaning<br \/>\n<em>&ldquo;<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\">They are holy to God and not profane the name of their God.&rdquo;<\/font><\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;Here the text connects being sanctified with eating the holy thing.&nbsp; Have you ever wondered about the<br \/>\nsignificance of eating the holy thing?&nbsp; Did Yeshua teach about being sanctified and eating what is holy?&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhat is the Lord trying to tell us?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Emor%20_2010-2011_.pdf\"> Read More here. <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s Parashat, Parashat Emor, from the Triennial Cycle (<br \/>\nVayikra \/ Leviticus 21:1-22:16) the Lord speaks to Moshe telling him to speak to the priests<br \/>\nand the sons of Aharon.&nbsp; Moshe gives the priests and the sons &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}