B, B, or B?

 

Q: How do we know Moses wasn't lying about what God really is and that the commandments are from our true creator?

 

Q: How are we sure that we haven't interpreted God's commands correctly? Has he ever told us that we have?

 

Q: Are other religions lies if they have different gods than us? How do we know our God is real and theirs are his false?

25th day of the Omer! Parsha and Lag B'omer

 

Song to start:  resisim? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq09lA_BdnA

Matkon Yomi:  Healthy Frerro Rocher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_gxSxZaXGk

Something Jews do you have probably never seen before. And a whole lot of them do this. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBpfR7U_d0

at 3:20

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1:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcyKThU-iBg

11:07

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So  500,000  Jews who dress like no Jews I know, singing songs I don’t understand, all  visiting this place I’ve never heard of for a guy I’ve never heard of, on for a holiday I’ve never heard of?  Do I have that right?

Yes.

 

Why were they there? What is this?

They were there because it was lag b‘omer.

 

What the Heck  is that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKP9VCblE54

So that’s the Lag.  That sounds pretty reasonable.   But why meron?

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, aka Rasbhi is buried there. Along with Hillel and Shamai.

 

So what?

Rashbi wrote the Zohar ! (No he didn’t but many people believe he did). 

 

yeah, great. So what’s the Zohar? And what does that have to do with lag B'omer

 

The Zohar is 13^th century multi-volume  that is mostly mystical (anti- rationalist)  commentary on the Torah.  It’s  written by  Moshe De Leon, a spanish Mystic (d. 1305),but who claimed he got it from   Rashbi.  It’s a huge influence on Hasidic Judaism and Jewish customs around the world.

Who is Rasbhi?  That french commentator? 

No, that's Rashi- Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, 10th century France.  Rashbi was Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai,  2nd Century Israel.  He became a major teacher in a curcial time in Jewish history.  To understand more about this point in time, we need to learn two stories.  One is  Rabbi Akiba’s students.  The other is about Rashbi.

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Okay, we get the stories.  What does that have to do with the videos?

Chasidic men celebrating lag beomer on mt. Meron. Or outside of new York. Hundreds of thousands of them here,  half a million on various sites on the moutain in Israel

So Rashbi wrote this big mystical book. (No, he didn’t really.) But Why visit a grave of someone who is  not a family member?  Yeuuch.

Intercessors. People to help get your prayers to God.  It’s a Chassidic thing, the rest of Jews almost everywhen and everywhen don’t agree with the idea that your prayers need help getting to God. Plus, they say he asked people to be happy on His yahrtziet, which is on…  take a guess… lag beomer

 

So  why go to Meron? people can be happy anywhere.

Yeah, but here’s buried up there.  So there is where the Chassidim go!

 

What was with the guy in the gold robe and the thousands of dudes in black.?

That’s the Hasidic Jewish community- the men at least.  The leader of the community,  their Rebbe (Hebrew for my master or my rabbi), gets to dress up special.

 

What the heck are Hassidim anyway?

That’s a whole month of classes.  But Let’s see what you know about this part of the Jewish world which is  as different from our Jewish community we are from  the Ethiopian Jewish community!

1.    True or False? Hasidim rarely wear bright colors as adults, and women never wear red.

2.   True or False? In virtually all Hasidic communities, kids are allowed zero or very limited access to the Internet.

3.   True or False? They all observe Shabbat very strictly, but not all keep kosher.

4.   True or False? Hasidim go to their rabbis for advice not just on Judaism but on every part of their lives.

5.   True or False? Hasidim are very superstitious around cats, and will often avoid going near cats, even lions at the zoo.

6.   True or False? You can tell which group a Hasidic man belongs to by his hat and other garments.

7.   True or False? Hassidic Jews marry on the older side for Americans,  usually after reaching 33.

8.   True or False? Hassidic Jews use a siddur similar to ours, but without English.

9.   True or False? Most Hasidic men will refuse to sit next to a woman outside their family if on a bus, train or plane.

10.                   True or False? There are works of Hasidic thought that share deep insights into human nature.

 The Medium answer:  They started out 350 years ago in Poland.  These were difficult times for the poor, often illiterate  jews of  Poland and Russia. Having faced pogroms, attacks, false messiahs and other tragedies,  they were yearning for something better, hoping the true  messiah would arrive. The first Chasidic teachers were Faith healers, charismatic preachers, and amulet makers who traveled around, often called tzadikim  or Rebbes.  These teachers were accepting of Jews who could not read or did not have time for study, and  taught serving God with Joy is paramount.  They taught niggunim, wordless melodies the illiterate could master, and made them part of their services. 

In time,  the Chasidic teachers founded courts,  where Chasidim  surrounded  their “rebbe,” in towns in Poland like Karlin, Skvira, Lyubavitchi, Belz, Sanz, and  Chelm.   Their numbers grew  and each group became known by their town of origin [Lyubavitchi =Lubavtich].  In some places Chasidism became the dominant form of Judaism,  while in other areas of Europe, Jewish leaders pushed back against the changes Chasdim made.  Only the threat of modernity, allowing Jews to abandon Judaism and join European society,  brought the Chasidim and their opponents together to create the first movements of Orthodox Judaism.

As the Holocaust approached, some Chasidic Rebbes fled to the USA, and an equally small number made aliyah to Palestine.  The remaining  Chasidic rebbes in Europe  refused to urge their followers to flee, yet many fled at the last moment at the urging of their followers,  surviving the Holocaust while most of their followers were wiped out.  Many were able to restart their courts and communities in Israel or the USA with a few survivors after the Holocaust.

Today, most Chasidim live in insular communities, maintaining their own businesses, culture, and modest modes of dress, often having large families (eight or more children is common). While they have great command of the foundational texts of Judaism (Torah, Midrash, Talmud),  their schools barely teach secular subjects to their children, often not even basic math and science as required by US or Israeli law.

They usually speak Yiddish as their first language- as a result of their educational system, some Chasidic men in America are unable to communicate in English. Chasidim in Israel refuse to serve in the IDF but expect government support when they do not work and choose to study Torah full-time. Many Chasidic women work while the men spend their days in Yeshiva studying.

 Chasidic services can contain beautiful music and joyous dance,  but  men and women are separated in synagogue and in almost all areas of life.  Most chasidim do not own TVs or attend sports events or movies.   Some do great works of kindness for other Jews, such as Satmar Chasidim who often stock kosher food and other Jewish needs at major hospitals ( such as shabbat candles, siddurim).  Others like Chabad offer many free services as a way to have all Jews follow their version of Judaism.  

Who is not a Chasid?  Sephardic jews form Iraq, Morocco, Iran, Spain, etc.,  Ethiopian Jews,  as well as Jews from Western Europe and the Baltics.   

 

 

So why the bonfires?

Because people like to set stuff on fire, and the Chasdim made it into these huge deals (WOMEN NOT ALLOWED- they have to go somewhere separate on the mountain, if at all.)  

What? Not allowed?  Why not? 

Ask an Ultra-Orthodox rabbi. We don’t separate by gender at AES.

Aren't you named after this place?

No, I’m named after my grandmother.   In America, my name is weird and nobody else has it.  In Israel, it’s like being named “Dakota” 

 

 

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Talmud Bavli, Yebamot 61b:  Rabbi Yishmael said “If you studied Torah in your youth, study Torah in your old age [as well], as you do not know which of them will endure, the early or the latter.” Rabbi Akiva says “If you had students in your youth, obtain students for yourself in your old age [as well], as you do not know which of them will endure, the early or the latter.”

Rabbi Akiva once had twelve thousand students, from Akko in the north to Antipatris in the south,  and they all died in one short time period. Why? Because they were stingy in helping one another, and did not treat each another with respect. Later in life, he had seven last students:

1.     The genous Rabbi Meir, a Jew by Choice who took the best from all his teachers and was chosen by the brillaint scholar Beruriah as a husband;

2.    Rabbi Yehuda son of Ilai, known for living modestly and having great self control;

3.    the hard-working  Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, who was thoughtful and hated long debate;

4.    passionate Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, logical when it came to Jewish law, but a mystic when it came to legend and midrash;

5.    Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua, who was generous with his wealth and taught many generations of students;

6.    Rabbi Yoḥanan HaSandlar, who made shoes and rulings in Jewish law with equal skill and determination;

7.    and Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov, who cared for the disabled and knew details of the Temple few others knew.  

Akiva said to them: “My sons, the previous students died only 

because they were miserly toward one another. See to it that you 

do not act in accordance with their actions.” They arose and 

filled the entire Land of Israel with knowledge of Torah.

With regard to those twelve thousand of Rabbi Akiva’s students, we find: It is taught that all of them died in the period from Passover until Shavuot. Rav Ḥama bar Abba said (and some say it was Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Avin), “They all died a horrid death.” The sages asked “What do you mean, they died a horrid death?” Rav Naḥman said “They died from Askarah.”

Note for students: Later legends state that the Askara pandemic came to an end on Lag B’omer.    Askara,  literally meaning “choking,”  indicates either Diphtheria or Croup,  both of which attack the respiratory system and produce horrible coughs and other terrible effects on the body.  5 to 10 precent of cases become fatal.  Today we have a vaccine that prevents Diphtheria, but in the time of Akiva, it would have spread rapidly by coughing and by contact, and easily devastated a community of students.  

 

Talmud Bavli Shabbat 33a: Rabbi Yehuda son of Ilai,  Rabbi Yossi Ben Halafta, and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai were discussing, and Yehuda Ben-Gerim sat beside them. Rabbi Yehuda opened and said: “How amazing are the actions of this nation, the Romans, as they established marketplaces, established bridges, and established bathhouses!” Rabbi Yossi was silent. Rabbi Shimon ben Yocḥai responded and said: “Everything that they established, they established only for their own purposes. They established marketplaces to have a place for selling female slaves; bathhouses, to pamper themselves; and bridges, to collect taxes from all who pass over them.” 

 

Yehuda Ben Gerim went and related their statements to his household, and those statements continued to spread until they were heard by the officials of the Emperor. The Romans ruled and said: “Yehuda, who elevated the Roman regime, shall be elevated and appointed as head of the Sages, the first among he speakers in every place. Yossi, who remained silent, shall be exiled from his home in Judea as punishment, and sent to the city of Tzippori in the Galilee. And Shimon, who denounced us, shall be killed.”

 

 Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai and his son, Rabbi Elazar, went and hid in the study hall. Every day Rabbi Shimon’s wife would bring them bread and a jug of water and they would eat. When the search for Rabbi Shimon intensified, Rabbi Shimon said to his son: “I am worried about your mother.  She could be interrogated  easily.  We should leave,  and then the authorities will  not torture her so that  she reveals our whereabouts.” They went and they hid in a cave that miraculously had  a carob tree was for food  as well as a spring of water. They would remove their outer clothes and sit covered in sand up to their necks. They would study Torah all day in that manner. At the time of prayer, they would dress and pray, and they would again remove their outer clothes afterward so that they would not become tattered. They sat in the cave for twelve years.

 

Elijah the Prophet came and stood at the entrance to the cave and said: “Who will inform bar Yoḥai that the emperor died and his decree has been cancelled?” They emerged from the cave, and saw people who were plowing and sowing. Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai said “These people abandon eternal life of Torah study and engage in business just to make money!” Every place that Rabbi Shimon and his son Rabbi Elazar directed their eyes was immediately scorched. A Divine Voice emerged and said to them “Did you emerge from the cave in order to destroy My world? Go back to your cave!” They again went and sat there for twelve months. A Divine Voice emerged and said to them: “Let’s try this again- come out from your cave.”

They emerged as the sun was setting on Shabbat eve. They saw an elderly man who was running home at sunset, holding two bundles of fragrant myrtle branches for perfuming the home. They said to him: “Why do you have these?” He said to them: “In honor of Shabbat.” They said to him “isn’t one enough?” . He answered them: “One is corresponding to: “ Zachor et Yom Ha-shabbat Lekodsho- Remember the Shabbat day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8), and one is corresponding to: “Shamor et Yom Ha-shabbat Lekodsho- Guard the Shabbat day, to keep it holy” (Deuteronomy 5:12).” Rabbi Shimon said to his son: “See how beloved the mitzvot are to Israel!” Their minds were put at ease.

 

 

 

 

Parshat Bread, Kohanim, and Parents

 

Is there a holiday from the Torah starting tonight? Yes!  

You have heard of it. 

No, it's not Shavuot.

It's Passover! 

Oh yes it is. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfgZocjHx8c

Start with an opener!- “where you are!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbuikoUmwI8

Choose the form of the destructor!

Puddin cake -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSPP5mH5lxs

Schnitzel-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp1m9iuKYUk

Red velvet truffles-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa2mP2ok14g

 

 

PARSHA: KIBUD HORIM

1)   From the Torah’s POV, what are parents obligated to do for their children?

 

2)   From the Torah’s point of view, what is the limit of Kibud Horim according to Torah?  

Can they forbid you to marry someone? 

Tell you what to wear?  

Make you come to synagogue even though

 (because you don’t know enough) you find it boring?  

Tell you to eat pork on Yom Kippur?     

If you have both lost something in a park,  whose item do you

have to look for first-  yours or parents?

 

 

אִ֣ישׁ אִמּ֤וֹ וְאָבִיו֙ תִּירָ֔אוּ וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ אֲנִ֖י ה` אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃

You shall each revere his mother and his father, and keep My Shabbatot: I am Adonai your God!   LEVITICUS 19:13

 

 

And My Sabbaths You Shall  Keep — את שבתתי תשמרו

 

Our Teacher Rashi wrote: Scripture places the commandment of observing the Sabbath immediately after that of fearing one’s father and mother in order to suggest the following: “Although I admonish you regarding the fear due to your father and mother, yet if he or she orders you: "Desecrate the Sabbath", do not listen to them” — and the same is the case with any of the other commandments. This, it is evident, is the meaning since Scripture adds — אני ה' אלהיכם “I am the Lord your God" (the plural) — both you and your father are equally bound to honour Me! Do not therefore obey a parent if it results in making My Torah of no value! (from the Sifra, Kedoshim, Section 1)

 

 

1-- What do you think about this teaching?   Does it make sense to you to put the sabbath’s holiness before your parents?

 

 

2-- Do you think this was followed in ancient times?   And can it be followed in modern life today?

 

 

3-  In what other situations do you think Judaism says that one may disobey a parent?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 127a, and also in Birchot Ha’Shachar in the Siddur

“These are deeds for which a person enjoys the profits of in this world, while the principal [investment] is kept for the world to come: honoring one's father and mother, performing acts of loving-kindness, being early to the Beit haMidrash/House of Study in the morning and evening, extending hospitality to guests, visiting the sick, providing for the needs of [poor] brides,  escorting the deceased to burial, studying and examining the prayers, and bringing peace between people. And Torah study is equal to them all.” 

 

 

Talmud Bavli, Kiddusin 30a

“The masters taught: There are three partners in a human being’s  creation: the Holy One, his father, and his mother. When a man honors his father and his mother, the Holy One says: I account it to them as though I were living at home with them, and they were honoring Me.”

***What does this say about your connection to God? What does this say about God’s connections to your parents?

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Talmud Bavli, Kidushin 31a -32a

 

A.    Rav Ullah said—and also Rabbi Judah said in the name of Samuel: When Rabbi Eliezer was asked, "How far should honoring one's father and mother extend?" he replied, "Go and see what a certain pagan named Dama ben Netinah did for his father in Ashkelon. Once, the sages sought some precious stones from him for the High Priest’s ephod at a profit to Dama of  60,000 gold denari  (about $5 million in Today’s time). But the key to where the stones were kept was under his [sleeping] father's pillow, and he would not disturb him." The following year, however, the Holy One gave him his reward. A red heifer, essential for restarting the service in The Temple, was born to him in his herd. When the sages of Israel visited him [intending to buy it], he said to them, "I know about you. Even if I were to ask all the money in the world, you would pay me. But all I ask of you is the amount I lost because I honored my father."

 

 

B.    Rabbi Abbahu said that when Rabbi Eliezer the Elder was asked by his disciples, "How far should one go in honoring one's father and mother?" he replied, "Go and see what Dama ben Netinah of Ashkelon did. When his mother, who had dementia, hit him with her sandal in the presence of the entire council over which he presided, he merely said to her, 'Enough, Mother.' Moreover, when her sandal [with which she was hitting him] fell from her hand, [he picked it up and] handed it back to her, so that she would not get upset."

 

C.    When Rabbi Dimi came [from Eretz Yisrael to teach in Bavel], he said: Once, while Dama ben Netinah was seated among the notables of Rome, wearing a silk garment embroidered with gold, his mother came, ripped it off him, struck him on the head, and spat in his face. Yet in no way would he put her to shame.

 

D.    When Rabbi Eliezer was asked, "How far is a man to go in honoring his father and mother?" he replied, "So far that, should his parent take a purse of dinari [coins worth $100 each] and toss it into the sea in the child’s presence, the child would not put the parent to shame.”

 

E.    It happened that Rabbi Tarfon's mother went forth on the Sabbath for a walk in her courtyard. When her sandal split [and he could not sew it up then and there because it was the Sabbath], Rabbi Tarfon held his hands under the soles of her feet, and she walked on his hands until she reached her couch. Once, when Rabbi Tarfon took sick and the sages came in to visit him, she said to them, "Pray for my son Rabbi Tarfon, for he treats me with excessive honor." They asked her, "In what way?" So she told them the story. They said, "Even if he had done this a hundred thousand times, he still has not come halfway to showing you the full honor prescribed by the Torah."

 

 

F.    Rabbi Ishmael's mother complained to our masters about Rabbi Ishmael.  Rabbi Ishmael was the Kohen Gadol, a most holy and ethical man who was loved and revered by the Jewish people. She said to them “Please rebuke my son Rabbi Ishmael, for he does not treat me with honor!”  At this, the faces of our masters grew pale, and they said “Is it possible that Rabbi Ishmael does not treat his parents with honor?”  So they asked her “Just what is he doing to you?” She replied “When he leaves the house of study [after his daily time of teaching], I want to wash his feet and drink the water, but he refuses to let me do so.”  The masters said to him “We understand why you said no, but since such is her wish, such is the honor due her [from her son].”

 

 

Talmud Yerushalmi, 1:1 15c

Avimi the son of Rabbi Abbahu said: There is one who gives his father gourmet chickens to eat, yet will inherit Gehenna/Hell; and there is another who sets his father to the heavy labor of grinding at the mill, yet will inherit the Garden of Eden.

How is it possible that one who gives his father gourmet chickens eat should inherit Gehenna? There is the story of one who used to provide gourmet chickens for his father. Once, the father said to him, "My son, where did you get these?" The son replied, "Old man, old man! Just shut up and eat!  Even  dogs shut up when they eat!" Thus, though he gave his father gourmet chicken, he inherited Gehenna.

How is it possible for one to set his father grinding at the mill and yet inherit the Garden of Eden? There is the story of a young man whose work was grinding wheat. When the king sent word that millers be brought to work for him, the young man said to his father, "Father, you go in to the mill to grind in my stead, and I will go do the king's work. Should there be humiliation in it, I would rather be humiliated, and not you; should there be flogging, let me receive the blows, and not you." Thus, though he made his father grind at the mill, the son inherited the Garden of Eden.

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This week’s Torah portion, Emor,  explains how each Shabbat in the Mishkan (and then later in the Temple in Jerusalem),  a special bread called “Lechem Ha’panim,” or “Showbread” in English.  Twelve loaves waere baked fresh each Friday in a special shape, and placed on a special golden table in the Temple, in the same room as the Menorah and the incense altar (the ark was in a special room).

 

 

 

1.    For decades,  observant French Jews would buy baguettes from bakeries that had no kosher supervision.  They were comfortable with this because:

a.    The French use butter,  not lard, in baking

b.    The French promised after WWII there would always be bread for the Jews

c.    It was a law in France that baguettes could only have water, flour, salt and yeast in them

d.    The jews of France set up a fund to keep non-kosher ingredients out of these basic breads

e.    Because they were afraid of our glorious leader of the People’s Democratic Republic of North Delaware, Jon Carney!

 

2.    What is the most popular way of making bread in China?

a.    Steaming

b.    Frying

c.    On an-upside down wok

d.    Baking, like everywhere

e.    Dude, people in China eat rice, not bread.

 

3.    Where in the world did archeologists find the oldest bread?  

a.    Ghana

b.    Russia

c.    India

d.    Turkey

e.    No…no… yes!  In the glorious people’s democratic Republic of North Korea!

 

4.    How old was this bread?

a.    5,000 years

b.    8,000 years

c.    10,000 years

d.    50,000 years

e.    250,000 years

 

5.    Where did people in ancient times get yeast for making bread?

a.    The Air

b.    Acorns

c.    Beer

d.    Wine

e.    People in ancient times didn’t use yeast to make bread, dude.

 

6.    What would medieval people NOT do with the Trencher,  the flat, plate-like square of stale bread they ate off of,  after the meal?

a.    Feed it to the pigs

b.    Feed it to the dogs

c.    Eat it themselves

d.    Give it to the poor

e.    Dude,  trenchers were  made of wood, not bread. It was a plate.

 

7.    Which of the following is not a modern additive into commercial breads?

a.    Dihydrogen Monoxide

b.    L-cysteine

c.    sodium metabisulfite,

d.    potassium bromate

e.    ascorbic acid

 

8.    What gives pumpernickel bread its deep brown color?

a.    Moleasses instead of sugar

b.    Brown sugar instead of white sugar

c.    Toasting the flour for hours

d.    Baking the bread low and slow

e.    Caramel coloring and coffee

 

9.    What do most people think is the most traditional Jewish Bread besides Challah and Matzah?

a.    Pumpernickel

b.    Onion Bread

c.    Bagels

d.    Rye Bread

e.    Coppia Ferrarese, the bread made in the shape of a cross, enriched with lard.

 

10.  Sweet, yeasted,  braided, and made  of fine white flour for shabbat, challah was adopted from German culture in which century?

a.    1^st century (2000 years ago)

b.    4^th century (1600 years ago)

c.    16^th century  (400 years ago)

d.    19^th century (200 years ago)

e.    Dude,  the showbread in the temple was challah.

 

 

11. What is one otherwise kosher ingredient that authentic challah will never have? Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever? 

a.    Egg whites

b.    Milk

c.    Garlic

d.    Potato flour

e.    Tears

 

 

 

Parsha: KOHANIM

a)  what s  sthis--- 

http://www.crcweb.org/kohain_guide_museums.php

 

 BLESSING BEE.  Anything that has a blessing for it or on it.

food or events  or natural things or life cycle events or  ritual acts

 

b)   vs blessing people. NB Gen 27:36,32:26,  Num 6:23-24 

 

c)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tXSX_ltDI

d)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlUJ3yPdQI

e)    See the parsha

f)       Can women do these things?  . 

h)   One other thing Kohanim do--Pidyon Haben-  something you have NEVER heard of?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwd08M7pr3A

i)     When we echo the kohanim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18n6c3C-Qs

 

 

Emor, Ch 21 vv 1- 8

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֱמֹ֥ר אֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים בְּנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֑ן וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ לֹֽא־יִטַּמָּ֖א בְּעַמָּֽיו׃ Adonai said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin,

כִּ֚י אִם־לִשְׁאֵר֔וֹ הַקָּרֹ֖ב אֵלָ֑יו לְאִמּ֣וֹ וּלְאָבִ֔יו וְלִבְנ֥וֹ וּלְבִתּ֖וֹ וּלְאָחִֽיו׃  except for the relatives that are closest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;

וְלַאֲחֹת֤וֹ הַבְּתוּלָה֙ הַקְּרוֹבָ֣ה אֵלָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הָיְתָ֖ה לְאִ֑ישׁ לָ֖הּ יִטַּמָּֽא׃  also for an unmarried sister, close to him because she has not married, for her he may defile himself.

לֹ֥א יִטַּמָּ֖א בַּ֣עַל בְּעַמָּ֑יו לְהֵ֖חַלּֽוֹ׃  But he shall not defile himself as a kinsman by marriage, and so profane himself.

לֹֽא־יקרחה [יִקְרְח֤וּ] קָרְחָה֙ בְּרֹאשָׁ֔ם וּפְאַ֥ת זְקָנָ֖ם לֹ֣א יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ וּבִ֨בְשָׂרָ֔ם לֹ֥א יִשְׂרְט֖וּ שָׂרָֽטֶת׃ They shall not shave smooth any part of their heads, or cut the side-growth of their beards, or make gashes in their flesh.

קְדֹשִׁ֤ים יִהְיוּ֙ לֵאלֹ֣הֵיהֶ֔ם וְלֹ֣א יְחַלְּל֔וּ שֵׁ֖ם אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם כִּי֩ אֶת־אִשֵּׁ֨י יְהוָ֜ה לֶ֧חֶם אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֛ם הֵ֥ם מַקְרִיבִ֖ם וְהָ֥יוּ קֹֽדֶשׁ׃  They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the LORD’s offerings by fire, the food of their God, and so must be holy.

אִשָּׁ֨ה זֹנָ֤ה וַחֲלָלָה֙ לֹ֣א יִקָּ֔חוּ וְאִשָּׁ֛ה גְּרוּשָׁ֥ה מֵאִישָׁ֖הּ לֹ֣א יִקָּ֑חוּ כִּֽי־קָדֹ֥שׁ ה֖וּא לֵאלֹהָֽיו׃  They shall not marry a woman defiled by harlotry, nor shall they marry one divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God

וְקִדַּשְׁתּ֔וֹ כִּֽי־אֶת־לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ ה֣וּא מַקְרִ֑יב קָדֹשׁ֙ יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֔ךְ כִּ֣י קָד֔וֹשׁ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה מְקַדִּשְׁכֶֽם׃ and you must treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the LORD who sanctify you am holy.