How is the bride of Messiah depicted in the sacrifices? And what are the Urim and Tummim? What does the High Priest’s clothing have to do with warfare? And what is the middle verse of the Torah? These and other fascinating questions are addressed in this amazing parshah.
Leviticus 6:8 -9 [6:1-2] Adonai spoke to Moses, saying, “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the torah of the elevation offering…’”
…משה לאמר צו את…
תורה = “Torah”
Leviticus 6:8-9 [6:1-2] Adonai spoke to Moses, saying, “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the torah of the elevation offering. The elevation offering shall be on the flame on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning (יקד, yakad ) on it.’”
מוקדה (mok’dah) = “flame”
Leviticus 6:10 [3] And the priest shall don his fitted linen garments…
מדו (mido) – 2x
2 Samuel 20:8 When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a [soldier’s] fittedgarment…
Leviticus 7:5 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a fire offering to Adonai; it is a guilt offering.
| אשה (ishei) = “fire offering” |
| אשה (ishah) = “woman, wife” |
The Middle Verse of the Torah:
Leviticus 8:8 And he placed the breastplate on him, and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Tummim.
| תמים (tumim) = “perfections” |
| אורים (urim) = “lights” |
REFERENCES:
Jeremiah 23:29 Is not My word like fire, declares Adonai, and like a forge hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Deuteronomy 33:2 He said, “Adonai came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; He shone forth from Mount Paran; He came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with fiery law (אש דת, eish dat) at his right hand.”
Luke 3:16 John answered them all, saying, “I immerse you with water, but He who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the holy spirit and fire.”
Exodus 4:31 And the people believed; and when they heard that Adonai had visited the people of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, they bowed low (קדה, kadah) and worshiped.
Exodus 12:27 “You shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Adonai’s Passover, for He passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed low (קדה, kadah) and worshiped.
Exodus 34:8 And Moses quickly bowed low (קדה, kadah) toward the earth and worshiped.
Leviticus 1:9 But its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, an offering by fire (אשה, ishei), a food offering with a pleasing aroma to Adonai.
Genesis 2:23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman (אשה, ishah), because she was taken out of Man (איש, ish).”