Tazria

Parashas Tazria

Leviticus 12:1- 13:59

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 a leap year in the Torah cycle, the Torah portion of Tazria is read together with the portion of Metzora on the same Sabbath.

This Torah portion is the 27 in the Torah cycle, the word Tazria means she conceived which refers to the law of purification after childbirth.

After the laws of tumah(Contamination) that result from the touching of 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 restoring 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 starts 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 total covering of 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 for 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 YAHVEH 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. Let’s 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” 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 be 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. Thus, 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 is for the thoughts of every woman to try to supplant her husband authority. The sin offering that all women carry with them even today, as Eve learn in the Garden, when she eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, she learn to making their own decision.

Lev 12:7 ‘And he shall bring it before יהוה, and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the Torah for her who has given birth to a male or a female. – We must remember Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shall bring forth children; and thy desire shall be for thy husband, and but he shall rule over thee. These two curses place over the woman in this verse as not been lifted, every time a woman perform these two offering, the elevation and the sin offering, it is to help her regain what she had lost in the Garden of Eden by Eve sin.

Lev 12:8 ‘And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean. – Although the sin offering or service is performed first, as a principle in Torah, the elevation offering is mention first. The reason is always to state the objective, then the process of achieving that object last.

When she brings these offering to Yahushua, He will make the offering on her behalf to EL YAHWAH. This is one of the few time that the woman does not require a man to bring an offering for her, she must do it her self.