Parashas Tazria
Leviticus 12:1- 13:59
Haftarah
Second Kings 4:42-5:19
Brit Chadasha
Mattityahu “Matthew”8:1-
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Please Pray this
Prayer
First before reading.
In the name of Yahushua
Our Messiyah
I pray for the Spirit of Understanding
The Spirit of Knowledge and
The Spirit of Wisdom
As I read through this Parashas
Except in leap years in the Torah cycle, this Torah portion of Tazria is
read together with the portion of Metzora on the same Sabbath. This Parasha of Tazria describe affliction of
the skin and reveals the cause of these afflictions that most people should be
very careful about what comes out of their mouth. As Yahushua says is in Mat 15:16 And Yahushua said, Are ye also yet without understanding? 17 Do you not yet understand
that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out
into the draught? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from
the heart; and they defile the man.
How many believers today are careful about what emerges from their mouth?
What we say can be as negative and destructive as bad food is to the body. The
Hebrew word for leprosy (Tzara’af) correlates to verbal negativity, as in evil speech.
However, negative speech does not always means it is limited to speech;
it can also relate to what we sometime do not say, or what we hear, and even
what we do not hear. The fact of the matter is, that most of the time we talk
and talk and talk, but we do not learn to listen to what other people are
telling us.
Just as punishment is afflicted on man because of evil speech, so is he
punish because he could have pronounced good words but did it not. For he
blemished that speaking spirit, which is composed so as to speak above and
speak below. And everything is in holiness.
It is even truer if the nation walks the crooked path and he can talk to
them and reprove them yet he is silent, I held my peace and had no comfort and
my pain was stirred up.
The importance of listening to others is something that people on a
higher spiritual level have always understood. Regardless of whether people are
right or wrong, we have a responsibility to listen to them. If we do not fulfill this responsibility, how
can we expect others to listen to us?
If we want to move to a higher spiritual level from which we can teach
other disciple, we must also learn how to listen carefully to others. To be
save from spiritual leprosy, we must learn to hear twice as much as we speak.
Often it is not what we say but what we do not say that sometime plant
the seed of negativity in our consciousness. It is written in Leviticus 18:17 do not hate your brother in your heart,” This does not
only say do not hate, but also in your heart. If we hate in our character, it
affect us in thought, words, and deeds. So when the time comes to speak, we
must be proactive and not reactive and blur out the first thing that come to
our mind.
If we are hungry, it is important for us to let some time pass before we
react; and when we finally do speak, not only do we release our hurt, but more
important we get to reveal the Light of
our Menorah or day of Creation we have experience. We can be a cause rather
than an effect and avoid doing actions that result from a reactive nature.
The process of creating our Menorah never changes because of the way we
act. Everything that happens to us happens solely to help us on our spiritual
journey. We may need some help now and again to help to reach full maturity,
but we are told that everything works for good for those who believe.
The word Tazria means she conceived which refers to the law of
purification after childbirth. This Parasha describe the afflictions of the
skin and reveals the cause of these afflictions.
After the laws of tumah (Contamination)
that result from dead animals, the Torah turns to contamination that emanates
from human beings. The first subject to be discussed is that of a woman who
gives birth, because that is the beginning of life and therefore the start of
the decontamination process, otherwise call sanctification.
The creation of human life is not a
mystery, yet it is the most sublime phenomenon in the universe. By being a
source of life, man and woman become partners with Elohim, in the building of
the Kingdom of Heavens.
Our human body is the vehicle by which
the soul that is place in it may used to achieve that lofty position of Son of
Elohim. This new life begins in a state of tumah, or contamination,
spiritual impurity, to show people that life is a process of sanctification.
Just as the day starts with darkness and end with the day, so too must our
lives star in spiritual; contamination and end with Acceptance.
Life is a process for the creation of
righteous sons for the Kingdom, or else what is the reason for creation. After
this period of contamination, the new mother begins the cleaning process,
culminated by the bringing of an offering.
Before she brings it, she cleanses
herself of the contamination, but she still may not consume sacrificial meat or
terumah, because the mere absence of contamination is not yet the fulfillment
of man’s goal, it is the total absence.
Man’s aspiration must rise higher than
the elimination of the negative inclination of the flesh; they must strive for
positive spiritual achievement, known as the fruits of the spirit.
A human is not completely cleanse until
they come to the Sabbath rest, the Shekinah Glory, by the offering that
represent atonement for the past present and all future sins.
Today, it is customary for a woman as
soon as she feels well enough to leave home; she goes to a synagogue and hears Kedushah,
or a similar part of the service. It is also customary that after frothy or
eighty days when she would bring her offering, her husband would be called to
the Torah, as a symbolic represents of the offering describe in this chapter.
These offering and ritual symbolize
that the birth inaugurates the beginning of the ongoing process of rising up
the new born child to a life of righteousness and holiness that will enable EL YAHWEH
to say you have fulfilled the entire purpose of creation.
Lev 12:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, - Therefore in order to fulfilled this He has
given us specific instruction on how to live in this world. Lets read and
learn.
Lev 12:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘When a woman has conceived,
and has given birth to a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days, as
in the days of her monthly separation she is unclean. – The term Tazria means she becomes
pregnant. Bringing life into this world is the ultimate deed of sharing or
love. Through the power of Tazria, we have an opportunity to do
extraordinary acts of love, particularly with someone with whom we have had a
problem in the past or perhaps even with a stranger. This sharing or act of
love allows us to change in a way that which is not possible before.
Sharing brings so
much Light, but sometimes after we connect to an enormous amount of light,
there is a terrible feeling of letdown. It is equally important to be just as
strong after we have connect to the light as we are when we make the
connection, so that the letdown will not be too severe.
The term “as
during the days of her separation infirmity” is a time when a woman becomes
tamei (ritually unclean or contaminated). The same regulation as those of a
menstruant, the Hebrew word niddah means someone who is separated. She
remains separated from any marital relations and may not touch anything that
must in a state of ritual purity, such as the flesh of offerings. This time
period of self impose isolation is seven days.
Lev 12:3 ‘And on the eighth day the flesh of his
foreskin is circumcised. –
On the eight day, the day of new beginning is when the new egg in her ovaries
begins the new cycle. A new potential for life is about to be created, that is
why a male child is circumscribed on the eight day.
Although the command
to circumcise was given in Genesis 17:10 – 14, it is repeated here again a
further expansion of the original command. A male child must be circumcised on
the eight day, even if it falls on the Sabbath.
Lev 12:4 ‘And she remains in the blood of her
cleansing thirty-three days. She does not touch whatever is set-apart, and she
does not come into the
set-apart place until the days of her cleansing are completed. – For thirty three (33) days. After the end of
the first seven days, she is immerses in water to remove her nidah
contamination, following which she assumes a new status for the next
thirty-three days. Therefore, there is a frothy day period, the seven day
following the birth and another thirty-three more days. In the latter days she
is still in a state of partial contamination.
In this state of
contamination, she does not touch anything that is holy, nor does she get to
enter the church so to speak. It might also possible for her not to even touch
her bible.
Lev 12:5 ‘But if she gives birth to a female child,
then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her monthly separation, and she
remains in the blood of her cleansing for sixty-six days. – There are a lot of people who talk about
equality, between men and women! Why would the Creator impose such a stringent
restriction if it were not for a reason?
Does the birth of
a female child impose a higher degree of contamination on the mother? Or is it
that the circumcision of the male child is also a form of blood sacrifice for
the mother? The female child and mother were to be in a state of contamination
for two weeks, and a further sixty-six days more in a partial state of
contamination.
The male child is
a representative of the Messiyah. It is the goal of every Hebrew girl to bring
forth a male child and that child would be the Messiyah, who would save the
people of Yisrael. A female child will never be the Messiyah, she will never be
circumcised.
Lev 12:6 ‘And when the days of her cleansing are
completed, for a son or for a daughter, she brings to the priest a lamb a year
old, as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering,
to the door of the Tent of Meeting. The woman shall bring two offering an elevation and a sin offering,
because she seeks atonement for two kinds of sin. The elevation offering for thoughts
of try to supplant her husband authority. The sin offering that all women carry
with them even today, as Eve learn in the Garden, to eat of the Tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, making their own decision.
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