Esnoga Bet Emunah
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America © 2011
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Triennial
Cycle (Triennial Torah Cycle) / Septennial Cycle (Septennial Torah Cycle)
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Three and 1/2 year
Lectionary Readings |
Second
Year of the Reading Cycle |
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Sivan 06/07, 5771 – June 07/09, 2011 |
Second
Year of the Shmita Cycle |
Chag Shabuoth 5771
Festival of
Pentecost 2010
We wish all of our students and friends and their
loved ones, together with all of our most noble and beloved Jewish brothers and
sisters and their Torah Scholars a most joyful and happy Chag Sameach Shabuot!
Candle Lighting and Habdalah Times:
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Conroe
& Austin, TX, U.S. Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue. June 7, 2011 Candles at: 8:13 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed. June 8, 2011 Candles: 9:12 PM |
Brisbane, Australia Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 4:42 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 5:38 PM |
Bucharest, Romania Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 8:39 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 9:53 PM |
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Chattanooga, &
Cleveland, TN, U.S. Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 8:35 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 9:38 PM |
Jakarta, Indonesia Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 5:27 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 6:19 PM |
Manila & Cebu,
Philippines Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 6:05 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 6:59 PM |
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Miami, FL, U.S. Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 7:52 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 8:49 PM |
Olympia, WA, U.S. Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 8:45 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles: 10:04 PM |
Murray, KY, & Paris, TN. U.S. Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 7:54 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 8:59 PM |
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Sheboygan & Manitowoc, WI,
US Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 8:12 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 9:25 PM |
Singapore, Singapore Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 6:51 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 7:43 PM |
St. Louis, MO, U.S. Eve of First day Shabuoth Tue, June 7, 2011 Candles at: 8:05 PM Eve of Second day Shabuoth Wed, June 8, 2011 Candles at 9:11 PM |
For other places see: http://chabad.org/calendar/candlelighting.asp
Please
read the following studies:
http://www.betemunah.org/shavuot.html;
& http://www.betemunah.org/freedom.html
Order of Service:
Morning Service – June the 8th,
2011
Torah
Reading: Exodus 19:1 – 20:26 & Numbers 28:26-31
Reader 1: Exodus 19:1-6
Reader 2: Exodus 19:7-13
Reader 3: Exodus 19:14-19
Reader 4: Exodus 19:20 – 20:14
Reader 5: Exodus 20:15-23
Maftir: Numbers 28:26-31
Ashlamatah:
Ezekiel 1:1-28; 3:12
Afternoon Service – June the 8th,
2011
Ruth 1:1
– 3:7
Azharoth:
The Positive Commandments
Evening Meditation – June the 8th,
2011
2 Lukas
(Acts) 2:1-47 & Revelation 2:12-15
Morning Service – June the 9th,
2011
Torah
Reading: Deuteronomy 15:19-16:17 & Numbers 28:26-31
Reader 1: Deuteronomy 15:19-23
Reader 2: Deuteronomy 16:1-3
Reader 3: Deuteronomy 16:4-8
Reader 4: Deuteronomy 16:9-12
Reader 5: Deuteronomy 16:13-17
Maftir: Numbers 28:26-31
Ashlamatah:
Habakkuk 2:20-3:19
Afternoon Service – June the 9th,
2011
Ruth 3:8
– 4:22
Azharoth:
The Negative Commandments
Evening Meditation – June the 9th,
2011
1 Corinthians 12:1 – 13:13 &
Revelation 2:12-15
THE AZHAROTH FOR SHABUOTH
An Introduction
BY THE REVEREND DR. DAVID DE SOLA POOL
The Azharoth (Admonitions) enumerate the basic commandments of the
Torah. These are traditionally 613 in number, equivalent to the numerical value
of the letters of the Hebrew word Torah (611), with the addition of the first
two commandments in which at Mount Sinai God himself spoke to Israel in the
first person. Of these, 365 are reckoned as prohibitions and 248 as affirmative
precepts. The rabbis of old point out that this should be suggestive of the
constant validity of all of them on everyone of the 365 days in the year for
the whole body of man with its 248 parts.
On Shabuoth, the festival celebrating the giving of the whole Torah to
the children of Israel, these 613 commandments are recalled. The 248 positive
commandments are customarily read before afternoon service on the first day and
the 365 prohibitions on the second day.
The version of the Azharoth traditionally read among Sephardim is by
Solomon ibn Gabirol (1020-69), with an introduction by David ben Eleazar
Bekuda, a poet of the twelfth century. Ibn Gabirol's version maintains one
rhyme throughout in the last word of every one of its 255 quatrains, while
within each quatrain the first three lines are also rhymed. The difficulties
imposed by this extraordinary prosody and the fetters of meter and rhyme, as
well as the difficulty of expressing each commandment concisely with allusive
reminiscences of the Bible text, have compelled even so incomparable a master
of classic Hebrew poetry as ibn Gabirol to put the commandments together
without logical sequence, often with repetitions, and sometimes with words or
phrases added solely to fill out the rhyme and the meter. In literal
translation the subtle feeling of the poet's stylistic embellishments is
inevitably lost.
The following paragraphs make no attempt at literal translation of Ibn
Gabirol's version of the Azharoth. Instead they present in some ordered
sequence the 613 commandments of the Torah which the poet has included in his
masterly compilation.
= = = = = = = / = = = = = = =
The Positive Commandments
RELATIONS WITH GOD
Love God and serve him; cleave
to him, walk in his paths and sanctify him. Fear his anger. Acknowledge his
justice, pursue his righteousness, keep his religious law, and carry out his
commandments. Be perfect with him, be meek before him, and be holy. Write his
words on your door-posts and on your gates.
PRAYER
Proclaim his unity morning and
evening. Lay the tefillin on arm and head. Utter a hundred blessings a day and
give thanks to God for your food.
PERSONAL ETHICS
Swear without falsehood and
only in his name. Fulfill vows and keep the word that you have given. Give back
that which has been wrongfully acquired. Free the mother bird when you take the
eggs from the nest. Wear fringes of religious reminder on the border of your
garment.
FAMILY RELATIONS
Honour father and mother and
revere them. Be fruitful and multiply. Circumcise all male children. Redeem the
first-born son, and give to him a double portion in inheritance. Free the
bridegroom from going forth to war in the first year of his married life. Marry
the childless widow of your deceased brother or give her release through halitsah.
Take in honourable marriage the woman captive of war who pleases you. Test
by ordeal the wife suspected of unfaithfulness. Punish the man who slanders his
wife. Cut off the hand of the publicly immodest woman.
JUSTICE
Be diligent in seeing that
justice is done in all matters of human rights, property, and damages. Put to
death false witnesses. Pay damages for injury done. Restore to its rightful
owner property that has been found or dishonestly obtained. Have true balances,
weights, and measures, and release all debts in the seventh year. Let the
community sacrifice a heifer in atonement for an untraced murder.
LABOUR RELATIONS
Pay the labourer his hire on
the day of his work. Proclaim freedom for bondservants at the jubilee, and at
the jubilee or on his master's death free the Hebrew bond servant who has been
sold for theft. Free the Hebrew bondwoman at the seventh year or at the
jubilee, and the handmaid when she attains years of puberty. Respect the rights
of the betrothed heathen bondwoman, and when you send your bondman tree send
him away well laden. A slave you may make of the Canaanite
RELATIONS WITH THE POOR
Show pity to the poor; be
happy to help him, give to him generously and proportionately to your ability.
Support the poor before he falls Clothe the naked. For the poor leave in the
field the forgotten sheaf, the gleanings, the corner of the field, that which
is dropped, and that which grows of itself in the fields in the seventh year.
Comfort the poor with words. Lend to him, and return his pledge and keep it not
overnight.
RELATIONS WITH YOUR FELLOW MAN
Love your neighbour as
yourself. Love the alien. Cheer the sick, bury the dead, and comfort the
mourner. Respect the aged and rise up before him. Rebuke your neighbour for
wrong done by him. Be happy in supporting your fellow man, and help to raise
his burdened animal Redeem those sold into bondage. Build a parapet on your
roof that none may fall from the house-top.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Set a king over you, and he
will write for his guidance a copy of the Torah. Appoint judges and officers.
Designate six cities of refuge in your land for the accidental manslayer.
Assemble the people by trumpet call. Put to death the false prophet and the one
who entices to idolatry, and burn away idols and idolatrous groves. Proclaim on
Mt. Ebal the blessings: and on Mt. Gerizim the curses, and erect a national
altar of plastered stones. Set out the Holy Land in its prescribed borders.
Observe the law governing the sale of houses in walled cities and in open
cities.
WAR
Impose the redemption tax of
half a shekel in a census for war, and levy tribute on those who go out to war.
Appoint a priest to guide you in war. Blot out Amalek. Spare the enemy city
that surrenders. Destroy a city that lapses into idolatry, and raze the
captured city.
RITUAL PURITY
Segregate unclean persons,
animals, liquids, and utensils. Bury excrement outside the camp. Cleanse by
sprinkling him who has a running issue, and the leper, and cleanse the one who
is contaminated by contact with the dead. The unclean from contact, from
intercourse, from emission, must cleanse themselves by bathing at the statutory
time. Avoid pollution and cleanse yourself if you have become polluted. The menstruous
must cleanse herself by bathing, as must the mother of a new-born child. The
priest must determine the cleanness or uncleanness of infected garments
and houses.
DIETARY REGULATIONS
The fruit harvest of the first
three years leave uneaten; that of the fourth year eat in the Temple, while
that of the fifth and the following years may be freely eaten. Cover
with dust the blood of a bird or wild animal slaughtered for food. The flesh of
an animal that dies of itself may be eaten only by one who is not a Jew.
THE RELIGIOUS CALENDAR
Fix the calendar and the
months of the year. Keep the Sabbath and make your Sabbath rest joyous.
Sanctify your Sabbath over wine of rejoicing and kindle the lights of
the Sabbath. Give Sabbath rest for your servants and your animals.
Celebrate the three festivals
of pilgrimage to Jerusalem and bring their required festival offerings and make
your pilgrimage festival joyous. Chant on the festivals the Hallel
psalms of praise. On your festivals rejoice the widow, the orphan, the Levite,
and the alien. Observe the month of Nisan and the Passover in that
month. Annul all leaven on the Passover, and sanctify its first and seventh
days. On the eve of the festival eat the paschal lamb roasted on the
fire, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, your loins girt and
shoes on your feet. Offer the Orner sheaf of barley and count the days
of the Omer for seven weeks from the Passover. Let those who are unclean on the
Passover bring their paschal offering on the second Passover one month
later.
Observe the Shabuoth festival
of the weeks and offer your first-fruits with words of thanksgiving.
Keep holy the first day of the
Succoth festival of booths, and the eighth day, observing the Eighth Day
Closing Festival. Build your festival booth and wave the lulab (palm
branch) cluster of four growths. Pour water on the altar on the festival of the
booths.
Observe the New Year with the
blowing of the Shofar, and the Day of Atonement as a solemn fast day. Bring on
it the people's atonement sacrifice.
Light the lights of Hanukah,
and celebrate the happy holiday of Purim.
THE TEMPLE RITUAL OF SACRIFICE
Build God's House of worship
according to the form he commanded. Revere the Temple. Dedicate it and its
altar.
The priest must offer up the
sacrifices to be burned, salt the sacrifice pinch off the neck of the dove,
slay the bull or the ram, receive the blood, sprinkle it, and wave the
offering and the breast. He must burn the red heifer for purification, and send
away the scapegoat on the Day of Atonement. He must mix and crumble the
grain-offering and take a handful of it. The priest is entitled to twenty-four
gifts, his portion of the thanksgiving offering, his portion of the
dough which you bring as a wave-offering, the first shearing, the shoulder and
the breast sacrifices, that which is devoted, the estimated value of
your vows, and a tithe of the Levite's tithe.
Twenty additional sacrificial
offerings are to be brought to the altar There is the bullock for the
sin-offering of the people, the offering that should be commensurate
with the means of the one who brings it, and the sacrifice which varies with
doubtful or certain guilt. There is the sacrifice by which he who was
unclean marks his cleansing, the required fifth, the tithe of cattle, the
first-born of cattle (though the first-born of the ass must be redeemed), and
the tenth of an ephah of fine flour brought with each lamb. Sacrifices must be
eaten in the Temple. That which is left over of the sacrifices must be
burned, as must that which has become unfit.
The tithe of corn and of
cattle must be taken up to Jerusalem. The tithe for the poor must also be
brought, and the second tithe after the Levitical tithe must be eaten in
the Temple. Confession must be made when giving the third-year tithe.
Let the priest provide the oil
for anointing and for the lamps, pour out the oil of the sacrifices, prepare
and provide the incense and offer it, set out the shew-bread in twin
rows of six, and the two loaves of the new corn on Shabuoth,
The High Priest must marry
only a virgin. He must lift his hands blessing over the people. The priest must
wear special garments for Temple service, as must the High Priest for service
within the Temple veil. He must conduct atonement for the people and bless the
people.
THE TORAH
Revere the learned and honour
the disciple of the learned. Learn and teach the Torah. The Torah must be read
to all the people every three years. Teach it joyously and diligently to
your children and disciples.
Write a Sefer Torah, and make
God's words the healing of your heart and lips.
The Prohibitions
RELATIONS WITH GOD
You will have no other
gods before God. You will make no idolatrous images nor set them up. Build no
idolatrous pillar or stone image, and plant no Asherah. Bring no idol
into your dwelling; covet not the silver of other gods and take not their names
on your lips. Deal not with God as other people do with their idols.
Take not God's name in
vain, profane not his name, and blaspheme and curse Him not. Do not try God.
Resort not to spiritualism, witchcraft, enchantments or charmers, and
let no witch be allowed to live, nor harlot nor sodomite. Forget not God, and
stray not after your heart and your eyes.
PERSONAL ETHICS
Believe not in
falsehood. Be not stiff-necked. Take no false oaths, break no vows, and delay
not to pay your vows. Do not muzzle the threshing-ox nor harness an ox
and an ass together to the plough. Do not take from the nest the mother
bird with the young. A woman may not wear man's clothing nor may a man wear
woman's clothing. Let there be no bestiality nor sodomy among you. Nor
may you hybridize your fields with seeds of diverse kinds.
FAMILY RELATIONS
Neither curse nor
strike parents. The gluttonous drunken son will not be allowed to live.
The sexually injured
may not marry. You will not commit adultery.
Spread no evil reports
about your wife, and you can never divorce a wife whom you have falsely
accused. You may not take again your divorced wife who has remarried. A
childless widow may not be married to another man so long as her brother-in-law
may marry her. While his wife is living a man may not marry her sister.
You will not commit adultery or incest, and the one born of incest may
not enter the community of Israel.
Forbidden in sex
relations are one's wife during her uncleanness, one's mother, step-mother,
mother-in-law, and mother of one's mother-in-law or of one's father-in-law;
aunt; sister, step-sister, or sister-in-law; daughter, step-daughter,
granddaughter, or daughter-in-law; a woman and her daughter, or a woman and her
granddaughter. Nor may one have sex relations with a betrothed maiden or
with an idolatress. Nor may one allow one's daughter to be a harlot.
JUSTICE
In matters of justice
fear no individual, respect no person, and show no favour to great or small.
Neither show favour to the poor nor pervert the cause of the poor, the
orphan, the widow, and the alien. Revile not the judges. Do not refuse to
accept the judgment. Parents will not be put to death for children, nor
children for parents. You may not stand idly by the blood of your fellow man.
The malicious false witness will not live. Put not the innocent to
death. None may be put to death on the word of but one witness. Have no
fellowship with evildoers as witnesses. Take no bribe, and accept no
ransom for murder. Let not corporal punishment be more than forty lashes.
BUSINESS
Do not defraud. Have
no undersized weights, or weights and measures of diverse standards. Do not
make dishonest measurements of land.
Do not exact usury, nor
give food at interest. And do not exact payment of debt from your fellow Jew in
the year of release.
LABOUR RELATIONS
Do not overburden your
bondman with work, nor deal harshly with a freeborn Jew. It is forbidden to
steal a Jew into slavery, nor may a Jew be sold into servitude. Let it
not be hard for you to give freedom to your Jewish bondman at the end of his
term of service; withhold not that which is due to him, and send him
away well laden. A hired labourer may not be oppressed, nor must his pay be
held back overnight. Hand not back to his master a runaway bondman.
The Jewish bondwoman
may not be sold, and for personal injury she is indemnified but not
automatically freed. If her master will not marry her, he must let her
be redeemed at her true value; he may not sell her into bondage. And if he
marry another, he may not lessen the allowance of food and clothing and
the conjugal rights of his espoused bondwoman.
RELATIONS WITH THE
POOR
Harden not your heart
against the poor and shut not your hand against him. Do not gather for yourself
the gleanings of your vineyard, or the droppings or single grapes of
your vintage, the last olives from your trees, the forgotten sheaf or gleanings
of your harvest, and that which grows in the corner of your field. All these
must be left for the poor. Take it not hard when you give to the poor;
charge him no interest, and be not as a money-lender to him. Oppress not the
orphan. Do not take in pledge the upper or the nether millstone or the
widow's garment, or charge interest on food, and judge not unjustly when a
pledge is involved.
The Levites may not
sell their allotted lands.
RELATIONS WITH YOUR
FELLOW MAN
Hate not and harbour
no hates. Bear no grudge and take no vengeance.
Do not loathe even the
Edomite or the Egyptian who comes as a proselyte. Do not oppress the alien or
any fellow man. Forsake not the Levite. Steal not and steal no fellow
man. Do not deal falsely. Be not dishonest with one another. Covet not, nor
covet that which is stolen, and do not remove the landmark set of old.
Take up no false report or slander, nor bear false witness against your
neighbour. Curse not the deaf. Place no stumbling-block before the
blind, and lay no snare for anyone. Hide not yourself from helping the fallen
animal of your neighbour or from restoring his animal that is straying.
Do not defile your land by bloodshed. You will not murder, nor incur
blood-guilt through leaving your roof unguarded by a parapet.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Your king may not be
one who is not an Israelite. Let his heart not be uplifted; let him not
multiply wives, or horses and chariots, nor let him take his people back
to Egypt. Curse not a ruler of your people.
Do not hearken to a
false prophet or seducing leaders, nor allow those to live who teach apostasy
to idolatry, and let not the land sink into lewdness.
Do not walk in the
ways of the idolatrous heathen nor do as they do.
You will not allow
them to live in your land, nor will you marry with them. Do not allow the
Ammonite and the Moabite to enter the community of Israel, and return
not to the land of Egypt.
WAR
Make no peace with the
seven corrupt peoples of Canaan or with their gods. Spare them not but wipe
them out. Seek no peace with Ammon or Moab. Spare not the religiously
apostate city, take for yourself none of its spoil, and never let it be
rebuilt. When laying siege to a city cut not down its fruit trees. Do
not disregard the proclamation of the officer of war and the priest anointed
for war.
RITUAL PURITY
Those who are polluted
and unclean will not remain within the camp, nor may they come to the Temple.
The Nazirite will not
partake of wine or of any produce of the grape.
Nor will he cut his
hair or defile himself with the dead body of his kin.
DIETARY REGULATIONS
Animals and fish that
have not the specified characteristics may not be eaten, nor may the prohibited
birds. You will eat no blood nor designated fat, nor the flesh of an
animal that has died of itself or was torn, nor the flesh of a goring ox that
was stoned, nor of an animal sacrificed to an idol. You will not eat the
hindquarter sinew, nor a kid seethed in its mother's milk, nor will you defile
yourself by eating loathsome living things. Nor will you kill the dam
and her young on the one day.
You will not eat the
fruit brought forth in the first three years, nor before you have brought the
sheaf-offering (Omer) of the first of the harvest shall you eat of the
new corn, whether as ears, parched corn, or bread. You will not eat of the
second tithe when in mourning, or when you or it may be unclean, nor
will you eat of the sacrifices when you are ritually unclean, nor will you eat
of that which has not been tithed.
CEREMONIAL
You will not shave the
corner of your beard, nor cut the corners of the hair of your head as do
idolatrous priests. In mourning make no baldness on your head nor gash
your flesh. Tattoo not your flesh. Wear no garment of mixed wool and linen.
THE RELIGIOUS CALENDAR
Do no work on the
Sabbath, nor on the holy days of Passover, the Festival of Weeks, the New Year,
the Day of Atonement, and the Festival of Booths. On the Sabbath kindle
no fire, and do not go beyond the limits of a Sabbath day's journey. Profane not
the Sabbath under the penalty of death.
On the festivals do
not appear empty before God. On the Passover eat nothing that is leavened, and
allow no leaven to remain or be seen in your habitations during the
Passover week. Let there be no leaven with the Passover sacrifice. Do not offer
the Passover sacrifice half-cooked or boiled, and break no bone of it.
Let it not be slain in any of your places except the Holy City. Let none of it
be taken outside or left over until the next day, and let no stranger or
uncircumcised or sojourning alien or hired worker partake of it.
On the Day of
Atonement neither eat nor work.
In the seventh and
jubilee years do no sowing or other field work, and in the jubilee year do not
harvest that which grows by itself.
THE TEMPLE RITUAL OF
SACRIFICE
The altar may not be
built of hewn stones. Offer no sacrifices to idols, nor pass your son through
the fire to Molech, and give not of the tithe as an offering to the
dead. Offer no sacrifice outside of the Temple in Jerusalem. Let there not be
eaten within your home gates the first-born of cattle, your
heave-offering of first-fruits, that which you have vowed, and the tithe of
your wine, your corn, and your oil.
Do not work with first-born
animals or shear the first-born lamb, since they have to be devoted to God.
Delay not to bring your offering of the tithe of your fruit and your
wine. Bring not the blind or the maimed as burnt-offerings, and let no
defective sacrifice be accepted from one who is not of Israel. Eat not
before the daily continual-offering has been brought, and do not leave beyond
their due time the fat of the sacrifices and the peace-offerings and
festival-offerings. Consume not as a sacrifice any flesh contaminated by
unclean contact. The hire of a prostitute or harlot may not be brought
as a sacrifice. No animal may be substituted for one that has been designated
for sacrifice. Rejected flesh must be burned on the altar; it may not be
eaten. You may not eat that which is left over of the sacrifice, nor of a
grain-offering baked in the oven, nor that which is dressed in the
stewing-pan and on the griddle. Neither the ritually unclean nor the stranger
may eat of the heave-offering. There may be no frankincense in the
barley-offering of purgation of jealousy, nor may date-honey or leaven be
brought as an offering on the altar, nor bread nor wine on the inner
altar before the Ark.
THE PRIESTHOOD
No priest with
physical defects may serve in the Temple. The priest may not officiate except
in all sobriety after he has washed himself with the water of the laver,
is ritually clean, and has covered his head. He may not marry a divorced woman,
an immoral woman, or one profaned, and in addition the high priest may
not marry a widow. The High Priest may not profane his seed and the sanctuary
by a prohibited marriage. He may not allow himself to become ritually
unclean, nor may he go out of the Temple to defile himself. He may not defile
himself by contact with the dead, even for a parent, except for a Jew
who has none else to bury him. In bereavement he may not let his hair loose nor
rend his garments.
When in a condition of
ritual impurity he may not minister nor remove the tithe.
The priest may not offer
as sacrifice an animal with a blemish. He may not make the incense for other
uses, nor make anything resembling the incense. Nor may he use for
others the priests' oil of anointing. The priest may not go up the altar on
steps, nor minister after taking intoxicating drink.
He may not eat of the
sin-offering, the blood of which has to be sprinkled within the Temple, nor may
he eat the grain-offering which has to be burned. Nor may he completely
pinch off the head of a dove offered for sacrifice. He may not remove the ephod
from the breast-plate, nor let the fire go out on the altar.
Non-priests may not
exercise priestly functions, nor eat of the portions consecrated to the
priests, nor may the hired man or guest of the priest. Nor may the
priest's daughter so long as she is married to one who is not a priest. And the
priest may not defile himself by contact with the dead. No non-priest or
one who is unclean may be present when the holy things are covered.
The Levite may no more
officiate after he has reached the age of retirement from service.
THE TORAH
Forget not the Torah
that has been revealed to you. Add not to it nor diminish from it, and let not
its words depart from your heart.
Chag Shabuoth Sameach!
Hakham Dr. Yosef ben
Haggai
Rosh Paqid Adon Hillel
ben David
Paqid
Dr. Adon Eliyahu ben Abraham