Levitcus Selections for Yom Kippur

  Levitcus Selections for Yom Kippur - Day of At-One-Ment

From  Achrey Mot: 16.1-18.30

Seventh month tenth day practice self-denial  A fasting day

A teaching guidance for all time

Day of atonement, cleansed of all sins   (from Lev. 16)

Yah speaks to Moshe  God speaks to Moses and to all of us  

Don’t come at will into your inner shrine, but first bathe in water 

Then come with a sin offering and a burnt offering

A sin offering, confess your error(s)

And a burnt offering -- offer up your suffering or self-discipline

Stand before Yah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting

With glowing coals scooped from the altar and handfuls of aromatic incense

Glowing coals, sincere devotion; aromatic incense, heartfelt prayers

Wash your clothes, bathe in water.  Re-enter the camp 

You’re clothed in your actions, which is your aura

Do good and be good, and thus re-enter the holy assembly

I am Yah – El, the Lord your God

Faithfully follow my guidelines and teachings

By pursuing these, you shall live (in reality with refined awareness)

Do not become physically intimate with family members

Nor with others during times of menstruation

Nor with spouses of neighbors

Don’t marry a woman as a rival to her sister while she lives

Nor marry man as a rival to his brother while he lives

Don’t bow to false gods (fame, wealth, etc.) and thus mislead your children

Nor profane my sacred names.  I am Yah (YHVH)

Heterosexuals have physical intimacy only with other heterosexuals

Don’t have carnal relationships with any animals

For that defiles you and the land

Which (in turn) will spew you out

Avoid such practices; keep my charge. I am the Lord your God                                (from Lev 18)