{"id":1136,"date":"2011-04-24T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2011\/4\/24\/Parashat-Kedoshim-The-First-Fruits-of-Death-and-the-Zavakh-Shilamim-Peace-Offering"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:23:36","slug":"parashat-kedoshim-the-first-fruits-of-death-and-the-zavakh-shilamim-peace-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-kedoshim-the-first-fruits-of-death-and-the-zavakh-shilamim-peace-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Kedoshim, The First Fruits of Death and the Zavakh Shilamim (Peace Offering)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>In this week&rsquo;s Parashat, Parashat Kedoshim (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus 19:1-20:27<\/em><\/font>), within the first eight verses of the Parashat we<br \/>\nfind that the Lord commands (i) to be holy because He is Holy, (ii) to respect our parents and keep<br \/>\nGod&rsquo;s Shabbats (Sabbaths), (iii) to not turn to idols or make graven gods, and (iv) to make a<br \/>\nZavakh Shilamim (Peace Offering) in order to be accepted.&nbsp; Within the command to bring the Zavakh<br \/>\nShilamim it is written that on the third day the offering it is not to be eaten.&nbsp; The text says<br \/>\n<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&ldquo;v&rsquo;im heachol yeachel bayom hashlelshi pigul hu lo yeratseh&rdquo;<\/em><br \/>\n<\/font>meaning <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&ldquo;if it is eaten on the third day, it is an offense<br \/>\nand it will not be accepted&rdquo;<\/em> <\/font>according to the NASB.&nbsp; The Hebrew text says &ldquo;if<br \/>\nit is eaten on the third day, &lsquo;he&rsquo; is pigul, an abomination; &lsquo;he&rsquo; will not be<br \/>\naccepted.&nbsp; Note that the pronoun &ldquo;hu&rdquo; (he) can refer to person or thing.&nbsp; Here the<br \/>\noffering of the Zavakh Shilamim, will not be accepted and it will be considered an abomination before God<br \/>\nif eaten on the third day.&nbsp; Have you ever wondered why God considers the third day the point at which<br \/>\nthe Zavakh Shilamim becomes a pigul (abomination)?&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Kedoshim%20_2010-2011_.pdf\"> Read More here. <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s Parashat, Parashat Kedoshim (<br \/>\nVayikra \/ Leviticus 19:1-20:27), within the first eight verses of the Parashat we<br \/>\nfind that the Lord commands (i) to be holy because He is Holy, (ii) to respect our parents and keep &#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-1136","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\/1136","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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}