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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In the chapter before parashat Sh’mini (chapter 8 of Leviticus), Moshe anoints not only Aharon, but also all that is in the mishkan, the altar, the basin and its base. The verb for anointing, MaShaHh (משח), is a direct descendant of the verb MaShaH (משה to draw out). An anointing is a drawing out of oil upon an object or person indicating that that person or thing has been drawn out to fulfill a special function. Allegorically, the Torah is designed to bring us closer to God’s bringing forth of existence in order for us to mentally process and engage what is made available to us in experience. In order to achieve this, we utilize our mental faculty of bringing things ....
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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In Judaism, the two most common names for God are Elohim and the tetragrammaton (Y-H-W-H). The word Elohim (אלהים) is the plural for Eloah (אלוה) which evolved from the root LaWaH (לוה – to join, escort, guide). In Ugaritic, a Northwest Semitic language very closely related to Hebrew, Elohim means “pantheon,” a grouping of gods that they looked to for guidance. Likewise, in the Tanakh, Elohim also refers to the pantheons of other peoples. However, Elohim can also refer to a group of human counselors or judges in an analogous way. Since in Judaism there is only one God, this plural word is used with singular verbs to represent the one God. Since Elohim means co ....
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Of the 12 occurrences of the expression: לכהן לי “for the purpose of performing the priestly functions for me,” half are to be found in parashat T’tsaweh. Allegorically, this expression means “for the purpose of giving something precise and mindful attention with respect to me.”1 In Judaism, the kohaen represents the ideal behavior to which every Jewish person is to aspire. As stated earlier in Exodus: You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a nation of holiness. A kohaen is a person who behaves with precise and mindful intention, a person who engages experience with precise and mindful attention. The first priest was Aharon. Allegorically, his name means � ....
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