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Parasha Acharei-Kedoshim (After-Holy Ones): Holy Confidence in Atonement

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This week’s combined Torah portion, Parasha Acharei-Kedoshim, discusses Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and holiness. It begins with Aaron, the Cohen Hagadol (high priest), preparing for the crucial once-a-year sacrifice on the Day of Atonement. In order to minister before the Lord on this holy day, Aaron first immersed himself in the mikvah (ritual cleansing). Before he brought the ketoret (incense offering) into the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the Sanctuary, he put on simple, white linen clothing, representing purity and humility, which was appropriate for this sacred day, instead of his resplendent golden garments.

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Parasha Tazria-Metzora (She Conceives-Infected One): Is Telling the Truth with the Wrong Intent Sin?

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The laws pertaining to purification, including childbirth, purity in marriage (niddah), and leprosy are discussed. These regulations may be understood in purely hygienic terms, for the religious significance, or both. The issue, however, is not one of clean versus unclean, but pure (tahor) versus defiled (tameh).

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Parasha Tzav (Command): The Transforming Power of Praise

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God gave to Moses the laws of the korbanot (animal and meal offerings). While such offerings seem strange, even outrageous, to modern man, they do pertain to worship and the attitude of the heart. Understanding them ultimately helps us to understand what Yeshua (Jesus) did for us on the Roman execution stake (cross), and why His death was necessary.

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Parasha Vayikra (And He Called): Drawing Near to God

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This Shabbat is also the first Sabbath (day of rest) in the Hebrew month of Nisan, which God ordained as the first month of the Biblical calendar. Biblically speaking, then, we are in a new year! God made Nisan the first month of the year because it was the month in which the Jewish people were freed from slavery in Egypt and became a nation. Nisan is regarded today as the start of the ecclesiastical new year, but the first of Tishri, which is the seventh month, is regarded as the start of the civil year.

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Parasha Vayakhel-Pekudei (And He Assembled-Accounts): The Completion of the Temple

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Vayakhel records the actual implementation of God's instructions on how to build the Mishkan, which was recounted earlier in Parasha Terumah. The Israelites did not veer away from the plans given to them by God to do their own thing. They faithfully carried out His directions. Moses did only according to the heavenly pattern that was shown to him on the mountain. Likewise, we need to make sure that our works are what our Father is asking us to do, the way He is asking us to do it, and that we are not just doing our own thing.

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Parasha Ki Tisa (When You Take): Moses and the Golden Calf

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God designates a man named Bezalel (Betzalel), who has a special calling or anointing, to be in charge of the construction of the Mishkan. God tells Moses that He has filled Bezalel with His Holy Spirit, wisdom, understanding and ingenuity for all manner of artistic workmanship so that the furnishings of the Tabernacle, the priests’ vestments, the anointing oil, and the incense could be created.

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