It is about how to resolve impurities (Leviticus 13:2–59; 15:1–33) in the service of life. Impurity is about death, disintegration, and decay. Life is about maintaining structure, ...

Healing bodies and souls: Parashat Metzora (Leviticus 14:1-15:33) On the margins is where some of the most profound holy acts are performed. Standing with those who are in the shadows, ...

The Holiness Code commands in Leviticus 19:34, “The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land ...

Leviticus 15: 1-3 “The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. Whether it continues flowing from his ...

Leviticus 15:19-20When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. Anything she lies on ...

Leviticus 24:16 sentences blasphemers to death; 11:7-8 forbids consumption of pork; 11:9-12 forbids shellfish; and 20:10 sentences adulterers to death.

Chapter 8to Chapter 10 Here’s an episode they skipped at my Sunday school. God, who’s been uncharacteristically quiet and gentle for the first chapters of Leviticus, returns with a vengeance ...

Leviticus considers almost everything a sin, so you might as well get used to those fiery flames. ... Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15).