“And CALLED [Vayikra] Yahuah al Moshe, or to Moses,” this parsha begins, as does the Book by that name, aka “Leviticus” in most English versions. (Vakikra\/Lev. chapters 1 through 5). And what He then said has turned out to be a major source of division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because this Book starts off with one of the most twisted, and thus problematic, elements of what much of xtianity claims (along, indeed, with most of the “Olde” Testament) has been “done away with”, most of us have heard things like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why should we care about, much less ‘study’, any of this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Erev Shabbat telling of the whole story begins to answer that question, by observing (as Yahushua later made very clear) that ‘what we have been TOLD it said” is not necessarily what was actually Written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n