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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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Parasha Terumah (Offering)‏‏‏: The Dwelling Place of God

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God wants to ensure that His people will remain in communion with Him, so He commands Moshe (Moses) to build the Sanctuary as a visible reminder that God dwells among them. He also tells Moses to ask the children of Israel to give an offering (terumah) towards the construction of the Sanctuary. Only those stirred in their hearts with a desire to participate in this holy work are to donate their material goods. No one is to give grudgingly or out of a sense of duty but out of love and gratitude towards God.

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Parasha Tetzaveh (You Command): The Oil of Anointing

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This week’s Parasha begins with the commandment to the children of Israel to bring the pure olive oil for the menorah in the Mishkan (Sanctuary), so the lamps in the Tent of Meeting could continually burn. Oil was also used in the priests’ ordination ceremony. Not only were the priests’ heads anointed with it, but they also presented to God a wave offering of unleavened bread prepared with oil.

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Parasha Mishpatim (Laws): Humility Without Humiliation

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No one really likes to feel like a slave forced into drudgery or servitude, like some kind of Cinderella, scrubbing the dirty floors of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Perhaps we all feel like this at times, and yet, Yeshua made the remarkable claim that whoever desires to be great should be a servant, and whoever desires to be first, should be a slave.

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