{"id":2094,"date":"2013-03-10T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2013-03-12T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:24:49","slug":"bits-of-torah-truths-parashat-vayikra-be-salted-in-christ-the-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/bits-of-torah-truths-parashat-vayikra-be-salted-in-christ-the-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits of Torah Truths, Parashat Vayikra, Be Salted in Christ the Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this weeks reading from Parashat Vayikra (<em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus 1:1-5:26<\/em>) the Lord calls to Moshe from the Ohel Moed (Tent of Meeting, <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u05d0\u05b9\u05d4\u05b6\u05dc \u05de\u05d5\u05b9\u05e2\u05b5\u05d3<\/span>) saying <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u05d3\u05bc\u05b7\u05d1\u05bc\u05b5\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b6\u05dc-\u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d5\u05b0\u05d0\u05b8\u05de\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8 \u05d0\u05b2\u05dc\u05b5\u05d4\u05b6\u05dd \u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05b8\u05dd \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9-\u05d9\u05b7\u05e7\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05d1 \u05de\u05b4\u05db\u05bc\u05b6\u05dd \u05e7\u05b8\u05e8\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05df \u05dc\u05b7\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4 \u05de\u05b4\u05df-\u05d4\u05b7\u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05d4\u05b5\u05de\u05b8\u05d4 \u05de\u05b4\u05df-\u05d4\u05b7\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7\u05b8\u05e8 \u05d5\u05bc\u05de\u05b4\u05df-\u05d4\u05b7\u05e6\u05bc\u05b9\u05d0\u05df \u05ea\u05bc\u05b7\u05e7\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05d1\u05d5\u05bc \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05e7\u05b8\u05e8\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05e0\u05b0\u05db\u05b6\u05dd: \u05d2\u00a0\u00a0 \u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05e2\u05b9\u05dc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05e7\u05b8\u05e8\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e0\u05d5\u05b9 \u05de\u05b4\u05df-\u05d4\u05b7\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7\u05b8\u05e8 \u05d6\u05b8\u05db\u05b8\u05e8 \u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05de\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d9\u05b7\u05e7\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05d1\u05b6\u05e0\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc \u05d0\u05b6\u05dc-\u05e4\u05bc\u05b6\u05ea\u05b7\u05d7 \u05d0\u05b9\u05d4\u05b6\u05dc \u05de\u05d5\u05b9\u05e2\u05b5\u05d3 \u05d9\u05b7\u05e7\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05d1 \u05d0\u05b9\u05ea\u05d5\u05b9 \u05dc\u05b4\u05e8\u05b0\u05e6\u05b9\u05e0\u05d5\u05b9 \u05dc\u05b4\u05e4\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4:\u00a0<\/span> <em>1:2 \u2018Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, \u2018When any man of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of animals from the herd or the flock.\u00a0 1:3 \u2018If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer it, a male without defect; he shall offer it at the doorway of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord. (NASB)<\/em>\u00a0 The man is to lay his hand upon the head of the animal that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.\u00a0 The animal is slaughtered, skinned, cut into pieces, and burned on the altar.\u00a0 If the offering is from the flock of sheep or goats, the animal is to be slaughtered next to the altar (<em>1:11<\/em>).\u00a0 If the offering is a burnt offering of the birds the blood is to be poured out on the side the altar, and it is to be offered up as a whole burnt offering (<em>1:14-15<\/em>).\u00a0 The grain offering is made of fine flour with oil and frankincense (<em>2:1<\/em>).\u00a0 When grain is brought as bread it is to be unleavened bread (<em>2:4<\/em>), it is broken into pieces and oil is poured upon it.\u00a0 Every grain offering is to be seasoned with salt so the salt of the covenant is not lacking from the grain offering (<em>2:12-13<\/em>).\u00a0 The first fruits are also to be brought as a part of the grain offering.\u00a0 The peace offering is to be slaughtered at the entrance to the tent, the blood is sprinkled on the altar, and the fat is offered along with the kidneys and the liver on the altar before the Lord (<em>3:1-16<\/em>).\u00a0 The scriptures also say <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u05d9\u05d6\u00a0\u00a0 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05e0\u05b6\u05e4\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1 \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05ea\u05b6\u05d7\u05b1\u05d8\u05b8\u05d0 \u05d5\u05b0\u05e2\u05b8\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05ea\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b7\u05d7\u05b7\u05ea \u05de\u05b4\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc-\u05de\u05b4\u05e6\u05b0\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b9\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05dc\u05b9\u05d0 \u05ea\u05b5\u05e2\u05b8\u05e9\u05b6\u05b9\u05d9\u05e0\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d5\u05b0\u05dc\u05b9\u05d0-\u05d9\u05b8\u05d3\u05b7\u05e2 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d0\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1\u05b5\u05dd \u05d5\u05b0\u05e0\u05b8\u05e9\u05b8\u05b9\u05d0 \u05e2\u05b2\u05d5\u05b9\u05e0\u05d5\u05b9:<\/span>\u00a0 <em>5:17 \u2018Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and shall bear his punishment. (NASB)<\/em>\u00a0 Unintentional or unknowing sin before God (ignorance) does not exempt a person from the consequences of sin and a offering must be brought before the Lord in order to be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u05db\u05ea\u05d1\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9 \/ The Holy Scriptures\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8 \u05d5\u05d9\u05e7\u05e8\u05d0 \u05e4\u05e8\u05e7 \u05d1<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u05d9\u05d2\u00a0\u00a0 \u05d5\u05b0\u05db\u05b8\u05dc-\u05e7\u05b8\u05e8\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05df \u05de\u05b4\u05e0\u05b0\u05d7\u05b8\u05ea\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b6\u05dc\u05b7\u05d7 \u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05de\u05b0\u05dc\u05b8\u05d7 \u05d5\u05b0\u05dc\u05b9\u05d0 \u05ea\u05b7\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05ea \u05de\u05b6\u05dc\u05b7\u05d7 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05ea \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05de\u05b5\u05e2\u05b7\u05dc \u05de\u05b4\u05e0\u05b0\u05d7\u05b8\u05ea\u05b6\u05da\u05b8 \u05e2\u05b7\u05dc \u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc-\u05e7\u05b8\u05e8\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e0\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05ea\u05bc\u05b7\u05e7\u05b0\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05d1 \u05de\u05b6\u05dc\u05b7\u05d7<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus 2:13<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>2:13 \u2018Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. (NASB)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here in <em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus 2:13<\/em> we read Moshe telling the Priests that <em>\u201cthe grain offering is to be seasoned with salt so that the salt of the covenant of your God is not lacking from the grain offering.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Salt is known to be used as a condiment for food from earliest of times and was indispensable to the Israelites for flavoring food.\u00a0 The Dead Sea or \u201cSalt\u201d Sea (<em>Bereshit \/ Genesis 14:3 and Joshua 3:16<\/em>) holds in solution 24.57 kg of salt for every 100 kg of water, and so after a flood, upon the evaporation of the water, coarse-grained salt is left behind in pools and ditches laying near the Dead Sea.\u00a0 Today there are various ways in which salt is used in modern cooking and in ancient Israel salt occupied the same place in preparing food.\u00a0 The importance of salt in daily life and in the Temple ritual explains its symbolic importance in the ceremony of the covenant.\u00a0 Interestingly, holy and inviolable obligations were designated as <em>\u201csalt covenants\u201d<\/em> (<em>2 Chronicles 13:5<\/em>).\u00a0 Many times in biblical history, a meal was started with a sacrificial offering therefore salt was always used during both the sacrifice and during a meal.\u00a0 Thus, salt is taken as a symbol of the eternal duration of the covenant of God that included the bread (grain) of the covenant.\u00a0 According to <em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus 2:13<\/em> salt was required for meal (grain)-offerings only, based upon this, the Rabbis concluded that the salt, which belonged to the Temple for sacrificial purposes, is also to be used by the priests when they ate their portion of the sacrifices.\u00a0 Following the destruction of the Temple, the table set for a meal was considered an altar, therefore the Rabbis recommended that salt should be put upon it and that the blessing should not be recited without salt.\u00a0 The necessity for the presence of salt in our lives is illustrated by what Yeshua said in <em>Matthew 5:13<\/em>, \u1f59\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u1f78 \u1f05\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03b3\u1fc6\u03c2: \u1f10\u1f70\u03bd \u03b4\u1f72 \u03c4\u1f78 \u1f05\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bc\u03c9\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u1fc7, \u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u1f77\u03bd\u03b9 \u1f01\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03b8\u1f75\u03c3\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9; \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03bf\u1f50\u03b4\u1f72\u03bd \u1f30\u03c3\u03c7\u1f7b\u03b5\u03b9 \u1f14\u03c4\u03b9 \u03b5\u1f30 \u03bc\u1f74 \u03b2\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u1f72\u03bd \u1f14\u03be\u03c9 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f51\u03c0\u1f78 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u1f7d\u03c0\u03c9\u03bd <em>5:13 You are the salt of the earth.\u00a0 But if the salt becomes insipid, by what means shall it be salted?\u00a0 For nothing it is strong for any longer, unless to be thrown outside and to be trampled upon by the men.\u00a0<\/em> In the Apostolic Writings, Yeshua taught his disciples that we are the <em>\u201csalt\u201d<\/em> (\u1f05\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2) of the earth.\u00a0 The use of the word<em> \u201csalt\u201d<\/em> (\u1f05\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2) in this context suggests that as salt season\u2019s food, so too we season the earth by living in accordance with God\u2019s Way of life.\u00a0 Our lives have an influence on others.\u00a0 The Scriptures indicate that by obeying the Lord, we preserve the earth by slowing the decay of morals in the society around us.\u00a0 Yeshua continues saying that if salt has \u201clost its savor\u201d (\u1f05\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bc\u03c9\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u1fc7, moranthe) using the Greek word \u03bc\u03c9\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u1fc7 meaning <em>\u201cto be foolish, to act foolishly, to make foolish, to prove a person or a thing foolish, to make flat and tasteless, or of salt that has lost its strength and flavor\u201d<\/em> or becomes <em>\u201cinsipid\u201d<\/em> how is it to be salted again or how shall it become salty again?\u00a0 The take away question for us today is <em>\u201chave our lives been salted in Christ and have we allowed that salting to loose its saltiness?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Do you want your life to be salted, preserved, and established in the covenant that God has provided?\u00a0 If you have not been salted, or need your saltiness restored, look to Yeshua God\u2019s Messiah.\u00a0 In Him, God has established His covenant forever! 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