Metzora

Parashas Metzora

Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33

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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

This Torah portion is the 28 in the Torah cycle and the word metzora means leper, which refers to the complicated ritual for cleansing a leper and the home of a leper.

Parashas metzora deals with the first stage of the purification process. The uniqueness of the laws of the metzora has established that despite the fact that his contamination is manifested in a physical sense, it was caused by his degraded spiritual condition.

Being alone outside the camp will give him or her the opportunity to reflect on their deficiencies and a chance for them to repent so that they can once more be found worthy to reenter the camp.

As soon at that change or correction takes place within the rational mind, the Neshomah and the heart, the personality, the same Elohim who afflicted him of her will remove the mark of his degradation and he can begin the process of reaching maturity.

They then begin a three-stage purification process that is unique to a metzora. The first part of the ritual was performed with two birds, outside of the camp. It was not a sacrificial service, and the birds did not have to be doves or turtledoves, since they were not offerings.

They had to be healthy and kosher birds, but that was all. When that ritual was completed, the metzor was permitted to enter the camp, but he or she was still tamei (ritually unclean) and some of his restrictions remained in force. After a seven-day waiting period, he or she could bring the offering that would complete the process of purification.

This Torah portion is the basic for all spiritual counseling. Everything we read in the natural have a spiritual meaning. It is only those who are spiritually mature are the ones who are qualified to understand this reading.

Lev 14:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, - I am YAHVEH You Elohim, I do not Change Mal 3:6 “For I am YAHVEH, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Therefore when He speaks as in this case it is forever.

Lev 14:2 “This shall be the Torah of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest, - Since the Torah mentions that his purification takes place during the day, and we as believers must walk in the light, all our actions should be in the day. He is brought to the priest at the outskirt of the camp, were it would be easier for the Kohem to come and meet him. This also mean that it was away for the eyes of the public.

Lev 14:3 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look and see, if the leprosy is healed in the leper, - The person who is now an out cast from the camp, must be examine outside the camp before he can be allow back inside. Yisrael is a set apart community and it must be treated as such. It is also a deterrence against being contaminated, for no one like to to be alienated.

The Pastor, one of the Mighty Hand of Yahveh is the member of the Priesthood who preform this service. The Laver one of the Altar of the Tabernacle is the altar where all the sacrifice are done.

Lev 14:4 then the priest shall command, and he shall take for him who is to be cleansed two live and clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.- According to Hebrew tradition, this affliction is brought on as a punishment for slander or gossip, therefore his purification is effected by means of chirping or twittering birds.

There must be two birds which represent the Blood and Water that flows from the side of Yahushua. The birds must be free of any illness or defects, they must be clean, they must be a species that it permissible to eat.

Cedar wood, because it grows tall, imposing, and wide, the cedar symbolizes haughtiness. Cedar is not a wood that is easily rooted.

Crimson thread and hyssop, the thread is wool, dyed with a pigment made from a lowly creature, a type of insect or snail, whose identity is unclear. The thread represent the Warp and woof of the previous Parasha, a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit and the Word that must be used to revitalize the contaminated person.

Thus, it symbolizes the penitent’s newfound humility. Hyssop, a lowly bush symbolizes the same idea of humility.

Atonement for sin requires that the previous sinner purge himself of the moral flaw that causes his misdeeds. The underlying root cause of slander and gossip, the sins that are punished by tzaraas, is haughtiness, because it breeds the contempt for others that let one talk about others callously.

The metzora’s repentance entails a resolve to change themselves, a change that is graphically symbolized by the following three items that accompany his offering.

Lev 14:5 “And the priest shall command, and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. – The slaughter is done in the same manner of shechitah, at the front of the neck with a knife. It may be performed anywhere, but it must be done by a qualified Pastor. This the the Blood part of the sacrifice. After the ritual is completed, the bird is buried, not burnt.

During the slaughtering of the bird is held over the earth-ware vessel so that its blood will flow directly into the vessel containing the fresh spring water. This is the Blood and the Water that flows from the side of Yahushua, for our atonement and our forgiveness.

Today we no longer sacrifice birds, we have the Blood and the Water that was establish from the foundation of the world to apply to the person or persons needed cleansing.

Lev 14:6 “Let him take the live bird and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. – The live bird must be dip in the blood of the bird that was killed, again represent the Blood that was sacrifice and the bird that will be let loose to carry away our sins. The cedar and the hyssop are tied together with the red thread. Then the bungle is held in the right hand together with the live bird and they are dipped into the blood and water mixture. Signifying the resolving of our haughtiness.

Lev 14:7 “And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird loose in the open field. – The sprinkling is the application of Blood and the Water seven times over the person. The seven times is one of the perfect numbers. The person is now returned to a perfect state.

The bird is now let loose to carry away the sins as the Red Sea took away Pharaoh Army, never to be seen anymore. This is true spiritual counseling. The removal of that sin that plague the individual.

Lev 14:8 “And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall shave off all his hair and wash himself in water, and shall be clean. Then after that he comes into the camp, but shall stay outside his tent seven days. – The focus now turn to the sinner, his responsibility does not end with the letting go of the live bird. His sins had been atoned for, now the root causes have to be dealt with.

By washing the garment is to bring it under the scrutiny of Torah, removing anything that is not sanctioned by EL YAHVEH.

The Shaving of the hair is to remove or discard all old thinking, and bring every taught captive to that of Torah. Only them we may allow the individual to enter the camp to a holding area, to see if he or she is truly sanctified.

Lev 14:9 “And on the seventh day it shall be that he shaves all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shaves off. And he shall wash his garments and wash his body in water, and shall be clean. – Seven days after the seclusion inside the camp, the individual is again having all the hair on his head shaved, he is again washed his entire garment and his entire body, and then he shall be clean.

The final stage of purification. The person shall bring three animals offering and each one is accompanied by a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah. In this matter the metzora “The sinner” is an exception to the rule, since sin and guilt offering are not usually accompanied by a meal offering.

It may be that the metzora is accorded this honor as Elohim’s Own testimony to the sincerity of his repentance, as evidenced by the removal of his bodily affliction.

An ephah is an unit of  dry measure equal to about one bushel, or about 33 liters, or a dry measure of about 64 US pint.

Lev 14:10 “And on the eighth day he takes two male lambs, perfect ones, and one ewe lamb a year old, a perfect one, and three-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil. – On the eight day, the day of new beginning he must take two male lambs, and one ewe, and one log of oil. The oil was used as describe in verse 15 – 18. A log of oil measure with a volume of six eggs, generally reckoned at between thirteen and fourteen fluid ounces. These were to bring a grain offering.

Lev 14:11 “And the priest who is cleansing shall present the man who is to be cleansed, with these offerings, before יהוה, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. – The Pastor who did the cleansing shall present the person who is to be cleansed along with his offering before the Tabernacle for full reinstatement.

Three animals, the meal offering, must be presented at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Until the metzora is completed all his offering, he stand alone just outside the eastern entrance to the tabernacle, opposite the Tabernacle entrance so that he is not inside it, but close enough for the Kohen to put oil on him, as required by the verse below.