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A NATIONAL LAW LIBRARY holidays celebration JEWISH HOLIDAYS FOCUSED ON ONE THING REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD FOR SEVEN DAYS (LEVITICUS 23:40) THE PEOPLE IN EVERY NATION LOVE HOLIDAYS, CELEBRATIONS, AND FEASTS. THE ISRAELITES WERE NO EXCEPTION. LEVITICUS DESCRIBE FIVE FEASTS, ALL FOCUSING ON GOD. EACH WAS MARKED BY SPECIAL SACRIFICES TO GOD AND A SACRED ASSEMBLY IN THE TENT OF MEETING WHERE GOD HAD “PITCHED HIS TENT.” RATHER THEN GIVING GIFTS TO EACH OTHER, THE ISRAELITES GAVE GIFTS TO GOD. SOMETIMES THEY REJOICED: DURING THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES EVERYONE CAMPED OUT TO “REJOICE BEFORE THE ..read more

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NATIONAL LAW LIBRARY SETTING ISRAEL APART FROM ITS NEIGHBORS YOU ARE TO BE HOLYTO ME BECAUSE I, THE LORD,AND I HAVE SET YOU APART FROM THE NATIONS TO BE MY OWN. LEVITICUS 20:26 (NATIONAL LAW LIBRARY) THE LAWS OF MOST NATIONS FILL A LIBRARY. ELABORATE INDEXES GUIDE LAWYER WHERE TO LOOK WHEN DEALING WITH A PERTICULAR ISSUE. NO ONE PERSON CAN KNOW EVEN A FRACTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF HIS OR HER NATION. IF THE OLD TESTAMENT LAWS RECORDED IN LEVITICUS (AND EXODUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY) SEEM DULL AND LONG- WINDED, KEEP THEM IN PERSPECTIVE. THESE—-JUST OVER 600 IN ALL—WERE THE ENTIRE SET OF LAW FOR ..read more

INVISIBLE DANGER THE REASON FOR SACRIFICE TAKING PRECAUTIONS: LIKE A SURGEON PREPARING TO OPERATE (INVISIBLE DANGER) YOU MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN. LEVITICUS 11:47 FOR MANY YEARS SURGERY REMAINED A DESPERATE LAST RESORT FOR THE HOPELESSLY ILL. SURGEONS KNEW NOTHING ABOUT GERMS. WITHOUT WASHING, THEY WOULD DON OPERATING GARB, USUALLY AN OLD COAT CAKED WITH BLOOD AND PUS FROM NUMEROUS OPERATIONS, THEY WOULD PICK UP THE SCALPEL, WIPED CLEAN WITH AN OLD RAG AFTER THE LAST OPERATION, AND GO TO WORK. HALF OF THOSE OPERATED ON DIED.STUMBLED ON ONE PIONEER AFTER ANOTHER STUMBL ..read more

REASON FOR SACRIFICE THE BOOK OF PURIFICATION(LEVITICUS) JUSTICE: SOMEONE HAS TO PAY IN THIS WAY THE PRIEST WILL MAKE ATONEMENT FOR HIM FOR THE SIN HAS COMMITTED, AND HE WILL BE FORGIVEN. (LEVITICUS 4:35) WHEN YOU COMMIT A CRIME, YOU DON’T GET OFF IN COURT JUST BY SAYING “SORRY, I’LL TRY NOT TO DO IT AGAIN.” JUSTICE REQUIRES THAT YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID. (REASON FOR SACRIFICE) THE ISRAELITES, THEREFORE, COULD NOT JUST MARCH INTO GOD’S PRESENCE TO FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM. THEY HAD TO BRING SACRIFICE TO PAY, OR “ATONE,” FOR THEIR INADEQUACIES. THESE SACRIFICES COST DEARLY. TO SUBSISTENCE FARMERS, A ..read more

PURIFICATION(LEVITICUS) A PORTABLE CATHEDRAL HOW ISRAEL WAS TO APPROACH GOD (PURIFICATION(LEVITICUS)) I WILL PUT MY DWELLING PLACE AMONG YOU, AND I WILL NOT ABHOR YOU, I WILL WALK AMONG YOU AND BE YOUR GOD, AND WILL BE MY PEOPLE.( LEVITICUS 26:11-12) LEVITICUS IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT BOOKS TO READ IN THE ENTIRE OLD TESTAMENT. IT HAS FEW STORIES OR PERSONALITIES. MANY OF THESE RITUALS REMIND US OF THINGS WE SEE IN OTHER RELIGIONS. PURIFICATION RITES BY HINDU PRIESTS AND LITURGICAL RITES FOUND IN CATHOLIC CHURCHES. BUT IN SPIT OF THE DIFFICULTY OF READING IT, THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS CONTAINS ..read more