Parsha Sh'mini: The Eight Day

By Richard Sison | 2019

Introduction

Parasha Shemini tells of the consecration of the Tabernacle, the deaths of Nadab and Abihu, and the dietary laws of kashrut - the clean and unclean food.

In the first reading of the parsha, covering Leviticus 9:1–16, it says that on the eighth day of the ceremony to ordain the priests and consecrate the Tabernacle, Moses commanded Aaron to assemble calf, rams, a kid of a goat, a lamb, a bull, and a meal offering as sacrifices (known in hebrew as korbanot) to the L-RD.

Is it important to have these animal sacrifices?
The blood of the animals and the animal sacrifices as commanded by G-D may not be able to take away sins but rather it sanctified those who are obedient so that by His ultimate sacrifice, He can make the “sanctified” PERFECT! ​

It is in connection with this will that we have been separated for God and made holy, once and for all, through the offering of Yeshua the Messiah’s body.
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Hebrews 10:10

The message