I agree, it is getting repetitive. Have we got it? Are the lessons not learned? Leviticus is one part of the Bible where not only that the text recounts things that are repeating themselves, even the text reads like another repeat, but different chapter and verses, and even in a…
The previous blog about “representation by proxy” (Yes, no, or ?) might have left readers on a ledge, a topic that might need more to resolve any questions or doubts about such a kind of idea. But, perhaps, taking a different topic, a different direction, might help. So here goes…
We go through our lives swiftly when in fact much of our beings rest on motions of “yes” or “no”. We rarely stop to realise this. Some of the “yes” or “no” occasions are very important, Others are opinated, others might be directed to us (decided for us), some others…
Writing this blog at this season of the year, my attention is captured by Leviticus 8:7. What is spiritually resounding about the procedure here, about putting on garment on a person, in this case for liturgical purposes? Certainly, the context is important. The sequence cannot be done in any other…
What else is Leviticus telling us in chapter 8? In verses 4-6, there is another condensation of liturgical details. Everyone was in an air of expectation or wonderment. The people gathered. Moses gave an introduction. Moses then conducted a ceremony for Aaron and his sons. What are the principles or…
There is a passage in Matthew 25 where Jesus was recorded as saying whatever you do to others, you do that in my name. The two critical points are whatever, and in the name of Jesus. It’s one thing to say we have direct access to God, it’s quite another…
Ready for more of Leviticus? After journeying chapters 1 through to 7, chapter 8 of Leviticus begins with a fresh tone. However, looking at verses 1-2, this is more a compressed version of the rituals explained earlier. Here in the new chapter, perhaps following their desert dessert is the rendition…
How does one get in to that “in” group? To be part of it? For a start, you don’t need to feel like you “intrude” their conversation. Tips required then on joining such a group. However, this blog counters that. Sorry to disappoint! Why is this “in” group, or to…
Things that repeat in church services: Reading Bible passages What we sing Offering Holy communion Sermon topics etc… There are many aspects of church life that repeat. The list above is about church worship. Repetitive is one reason some people decide against church, or church services, because we re-do something,…
Leviticus 6:27-28 has some familiar text, context, imagery, objects and word of instructions. However, there are some further details about washing the garment if speckled by blood of the sin offering, and instruction about the vessels in which the offering was boiled. These appear to be slightly different in material…
Hunger aplenty. Many of us who go day by day in hunger, and perhaps also in poverty. Those who have medical, physiological or other needs might choose not to eat, or prefer to fast, perhaps also for a range of additional personal, social, familiar or ideological reasons. Food, shortage of…
Probably, or definitely, that it is baseless to speak about freewill in Leviticus. A very specific, potentially much rarely used, word – “Command” appears in Leviticus 6:9. Here, The Lord said to Moses to “command” Aarons etc. etc. This specific word is rarely used in the Old Testament in so…
