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.
