Good Morning. You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:17) In the days of the Temple, on the day of Pentecost...

Good Morning. And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest." (Leviticus 23:10) As we read about these different...

Good Morning. These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. (Leviticus 23:4) It is obvious that the Creator desires that we observe these special times He established to meet with His people but why does He want...

Good Morning. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. (Leviticus 23:3) In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon declared that everything has a...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts." (Leviticus 23:2) As I explained in the previous devotional, the Hebrew word moedim is literally translated...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts." (Leviticus 23:2) When it comes to the Biblical feasts such as Passover or the Feast of Trumpets, there is a...

Good Morning. No outsider shall eat the holy offering; one who dwells with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing. (Leviticus 22:10) In the Sanctuary, anything that was considered holy could not be used for any common purpose. For instance, the...

Good Morning. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name by what they dedicate to Me." (Leviticus 22:1-2) Pursuant to the...

Good Morning. Speak to Aaron, saying: "No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God." (Leviticus 21:16) On the surface, this sounds pretty harsh because, after all, who is the One who creates man?...

Good Morning. He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments ... shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of...

Good Morning. Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy. (Leviticus 21:8) Though it is not clearly stated in this verse, rabbinic sources interpret this verse to say...