Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf

“YHWH here expands on His view of how His children should deal with blood. He describes the substance as sacred—the source of life—but also, if mishandled, as defiling. The origins of kashrut—dietary purity—derive from this chapter, among others. YHWH thus reminds His children that they are not animals or pagans, who eat anything killed in any manner, but that He wishes them to have a thoughtful and civilized relationship to the animals they kill and eat, and to their own bodies.” Watch Now: Please Support Our Sponsors: The Wellness Company: https://dailyclouthealth.com [https://dailyclouthealth.com] Use code OUTSPOKEN for 10% off! BloodFlow-7: Want better energy, focus, stamina, and heart health—naturally? BloodFlow-7 boosts nitric oxide by 230% to help you feel younger, stronger, and sharper with just one daily dose. Learn more at https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout [https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout] NativePath: "7 Reasons Why Men & Women Over 50 Are Adding This Single Ingredient To Their Morning Routine. Visit https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout [https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout] to Learn More…" Discover LegiSector! Stay up-to-date on issues you care about with LegiSector’s state-of-the-art summarizing capabilities and customizable portals. Try now for a free trial...Learn more at https://www.legisector.com [https://www.legisector.com] Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf at genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe [https://genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

"The first Yom Kippur is spelled out by the Creator. In this chapter, YHWH expands on the idea that it is not only individuals who can become ‘impure’ via transgressions, but entire communities. The Creator explains how, once a year, the priest and the community can atone to YHWH via sacrifice and repentance, and even send a live goat into the wilderness as a way to place ‘iniquities’ onto the animal. We discuss how this ritual could show vestiges of other idolatrous religions’ practices, including the identification of the wilderness with demons." Please Support Our Sponsors: The Wellness Company: https://dailyclouthealth.com [https://dailyclouthealth.com] Use code OUTSPOKEN for 10% off! BloodFlow-7: Want better energy, focus, stamina, and heart health—naturally? BloodFlow-7 boosts nitric oxide by 230% to help you feel younger, stronger, and sharper with just one daily dose. Learn more at https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout [https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout] NativePath: "7 Reasons Why Men & Women Over 50 Are Adding This Single Ingredient To Their Morning Routine. Visit https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout [https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout] to Learn More…" Discover LegiSector! Stay up-to-date on issues you care about with LegiSector’s state-of-the-art summarizing capabilities and customizable portals. Try now for a free trial...Learn more at https://www.legisector.com [https://www.legisector.com] Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf at genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe [https://genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

"The Children of Israel are still in the desert and still receiving detailed instructions from YHWH, about how to create conditions for YHWH and His human family to live together in harmony and connection. At the end of Exodus, He explained how to build His portable dwelling place. Now he explains ‘sacrifice’, which is also translateable as ‘offerings’. We see again how the ‘ordinary’ person is supposed to approach YHWH himself (unclear but unlikely if women were included here) and make the ‘offering’, including performing the actual slaughter of the animal. Priests again are simply helpers. This chapter reveals intense beauty and poetry around the ‘krv’ root, or ‘near’ as a verb, repeating ‘lehakriv’ or variants six or seven times, showing that an ‘offering’ ‘nears you’ to YHWH. ‘Krv’ is ALSO the root of the word translated as ‘sacrifice’, ‘korban’! So this chapter shows that offerings - tendentiously translated later as ‘sacrifices’ — are really for us - not YHWH - to help us ‘near’ to Him. They are not guilt gestures or punishments or bribes. We also discuss the literal translation or ‘reiach nichoach l’YHWH’ — poorly translated often as ‘a sweet savor to the Lord’ or ‘a pleasant odor’. ‘Reiach’ can also mean ‘spirit’ or ‘wind’ and is the same root as what would be later translated in the New Testament as ‘Holy Spirit’ or ‘Holy Ghost’. So it’s better for us to understand our ‘offerings’ (not really ‘sacrifices’) put through fire as ‘bread/food fire’, as bringing ‘peace/s’ (plural) for both parties in the relationship with YHWH, and offering a ‘pleasing spirit’ to YHWH. As we see over and over, YHWH isn’t after our sheep and goats; He is after our voluntary love and ‘karov’-ness - closeness, with ‘closeness-ing’ or ‘nearing’ to Him being a verb that is not frozen in time like, ‘we are close’, but rather one that extends continually in time; that is to say, these two chapters show that we can always be ‘nearing’ more to YHWH continually." Please Support Our Sponsors: The Wellness Company: https://dailyclouthealth.com Use code OUTSPOKEN for 10% off! BloodFlow-7: Want better energy, focus, stamina, and heart health—naturally? BloodFlow-7 boosts nitric oxide by 230% to help you feel younger, stronger, and sharper with just one daily dose. Learn more at https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout [https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout] NativePath: "7 Reasons Why Men & Women Over 50 Are Adding This Single Ingredient To Their Morning Routine. Visit https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout [https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout] to Learn More…" Order ‘The Pfizer Papers’ and Support Our Historic Work: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1648210376?&tag=skyhorsepub-20 [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1648210376?&tag=skyhorsepub-20] Discover LegiSector! Stay up-to-date on issues you care about with LegiSector’s state-of-the-art summarizing capabilities and customizable portals. Try now for a free trial...Learn more at https://www.legisector.com [https://www.legisector.com] Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf at genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe [https://genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

"YHWH continues instructing Moses and Aaron about how to handle infectious diseases, notably a disease now translated as leprosy. People who may be infectious to others are kept apart from the community until the Priest can assist them in reintegrating, via a sacrifice and ritual at the Tent of Meeting. ‘Pure’ and ‘impure’ continue to be an important theme for the Creator." Watch Now: Please Support Our Sponsors: The Wellness Company: https://dailyclouthealth.com [https://dailyclouthealth.com] Use code OUTSPOKEN for 10% off! BloodFlow-7: Want better energy, focus, stamina, and heart health—naturally? BloodFlow-7 boosts nitric oxide by 230% to help you feel younger, stronger, and sharper with just one daily dose. Learn more at https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout [https://www.bloodflow7.com/DailyClout] NativePath: "7 Reasons Why Men & Women Over 50 Are Adding This Single Ingredient To Their Morning Routine. Visit https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout [https://getnativepath.com/DailyClout] to Learn More…" Discover LegiSector! Stay up-to-date on issues you care about with LegiSector’s state-of-the-art summarizing capabilities and customizable portals. Try now for a free trial...Learn more at https://www.legisector.com [https://www.legisector.com] Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf at genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe [https://genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

“We start a whole new book of the Hebrew Bible! Leviticus 1 begins with guidance on how to make offerings to YHWH. As has been the case throughout so far, the original Hebrew emphasizes that the ordinary person is the one meant to make the offering—not the priest, who merely assists. The desire of the worshipper to make the gift is important, too. This word, however, is completely erased by the time the Revised Standard Version reaches us.” Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf at genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe [https://genevabiblereadingsbynaomiwolf.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]