ACHAREI MOT (After the Death) & KEDOSHIM (Set-apart Ones)

1. He said, "Human being, this is the place for my throne, the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live among the people of Isra'el forever. … (Ezekiel 43:7 CJB)

2. ACHAREI MOT (After the Death) & KEDOSHIM (Set-apart Ones) TORAH: Leviticus 16:1-20:27; HAFTARAH: Ezekiel 22:1-19; Amos 9:7-15; Isaiah 66:1-24; B’RIT CHADASHAH: Hebrews 9:6-28; Romans 3:19-28; 9:30-10:13; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; 2 Corinthians 2:1-11; 14-17; 1 Peter 1:13-16

3. PURSUIT OF HOLINESS • Leviticus teaches us as kings and priests in Yahweh’s government on earth, that to keep our hearts clean and free of spiritual contamination we need to bring our freewill offerings daily before Yahweh. • Yahweh has taught us about clean and unclean, holy and unholy practices that separate us physically and spiritually from Him. Chapter 16 of Leviticus is the clarification of holiness and how to walk in it daily, weekly, monthly and yearly as a lifestyle. This is not about salvation; it is about temple maintenance, our temple maintenance – our bodies, because without holiness no one will see Yahweh. We are complete at salvation but to have wholeness is about the pursuitof holiness and His righteousness through obedience to the Word spoken by Yeshua at Mount Sinai (John 5:46-47). • Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see Yahweh (Hebrews 12:14).

4. OBEDIENCE & FORGIVENESS • Obedience without forgiveness is legalism, and forgiveness without obedience is lawlessness. Both of these components work together to prefect us into the image of Yeshua. • In Psalm 51:16-17 King David understood this when He wrote: • "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. For thou desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delight not in burnt offering." • David knew that no sacrifice would atone for the sins he committed therefore he relied entirely on HaShem's mercy. However, David also understood that forgiveness was only the starting point. Final verses of Psalm 51 state "Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar".David realized that, after he was forgiven his obedient offering of sacrifices would please HaShem.

5. ACHAREI MOT • The numeric value of “Acharei Mot” total 665, which also equals “mitsnepheth” from Exodus 28:37, which is the “turban” or “mitre” worn on the head of the High Priest. • Leviticus 16:1-4 – We note the following: • The High Priest (KohenHaGadol) can only enter inside the veil, the Holy of Holies, once a year, at Yom Kippur. • In order to minister before the Lord on this holy day, Aharon first immersed himself in the mikvah (ritual cleansing). • Before he brought the ketoret (incense offering) into the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the Sanctuary, he donned simple, white linen clothing, representing purity and humility, which was appropriate for this sacred day, instead of his resplendent golden garments. • When he comes into the Holy of Holies, part of his prescribed clothing is this “mitsnepheth” or “turban, a reminder of his sons’ disobedience.

6. OFFERINGS • Verse 3: • Bull for a “sin offering”, a “chatta‟ah”. This offering was for the Priest and his house. The “bull” (“baqar”) represents strength, our strength. All of us must come before YHVH having laid down our strength; in fact, we offer our strength to Him. • The “ram” (“ayil” in Hebrew) as the “burnt offering” (The “olah” or “ascension”). “Ayil” (the ram) literally means “righteous” or “upright”. The picture here is that only the upright and righteous may ascend to YHVH; and, we offer that to Him also as we can only be righteous because of Him.

7. HOLY CONFIDENCE • The blood will serve you as a sign marking the houses where you are; when I see the blood, I will pass over [Hebrew: pasach] you — when I strike the land of Egypt, the death blow will not strike you. (Exodus 12:13 CJB) • He is to put on the holy linen tunic, have the linen shorts next to his bare flesh, have the linen sash wrapped around him, and be wearing the linen turban — they are the holy garments. He is to bathe his body in water and put them on. (Leviticus 16:4 CJB) • The rabbis provide insight into the reason for wearing simple, white linen garments on this holy day: • When men are summoned before an earthly ruler to defend themselves against some charge, they appear downcast and dressed in black like mourners.  Israel appears before God arrayed in white, as if going to a feast, confident that all who return penitently to their Maker will receive not condemnation but pardon at His hands.  (The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, p. 480)

8. AZA”ZEL • He is to take the two goats and place them before Adonai at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aharon is to cast lots for the two goats, one lot for Adonai and the other for `Az'azel. (Leviticus 16:7-8 CJB) • Who or what is “Aza‟zel”? • Strong’s Concordance refers to “Aza‟zel” as the “scapegoat”. • Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, to “cast out” or “remove”. • The Hebrew sages teach that it means the “desert”, where the scapegoat is released, or the “cliff” from which the scapegoat is thrown. • According to the Book of Enoch, Chapter 10, “Aza‟zel” was the leader of 200 “fallen Malakim” who mated with the daughters of men, resulting in the race of giants known as the “Nephilim”. This name or word “Aza‟zel” literally means in Hebrew “arrogant towards El”. He is bound and is being held in outer darkness, in an “opening in the desert” awaiting the judgment and being cast into the “lake of fire”. In Modern Hebrew, the word “aza‟zel” means “hell”.

9. SCAPEGOAT • Leviticus 16:5-10 Here we have the “two goats”. Lots were cast for the goats; one lot for YHVH and one for “Aza‟zel”. …But the goat on which the lot for Aza‟zel fell is caused to stand alive before YHVH, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness to Aza‟zel.” Verses 20-22; … Then Aharon shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and shall confess over it all the crookednesses of the children of Yisra‟el, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man. And the goat shall bear on itself all their crookednesses, to a land cut off. Thus he shall send the goat away into the wilderness. • This “scapegoat” is to bear all of the sins of Yisra’el upon its head and carry them to a “land cut-off”. This is how David could write, in Tehillim 103:10-13; He has not done to us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our crookednesses. For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His kindness toward those who fear Him; As far as east is from west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

10. PERFECT JUSTICE • Aza’zel is spelled “Ayin-zayin-aleph-zayin-lamed”. The numeric value these letters in Aza’zel is 115 which equals “nisah”, “to tempt”. Yahshua was tempted in the “wilderness” • The rabbis teach that one goat was slain for our sin and on the second, or “scapegoat” was placed all of our guilt. Then it was sent to “Aza‟zel the tempter”. Thereby, all our former guilt is placed on him who tempted us. And, at the judgment, all the guilt is placed upon the one responsible for the temptation and accusation. That’s Elohim’s perfect justice. • Soncino Pentateuch says of the Azazel Goat of Leviticus 16:10 that the word scapegoat, as used in the KJV, is a poor translation and should be rendered as dismissal. In the Septuagint it is translated as the one to be sent away, which agrees with the term used in the Mishnah. Azazel is not a proper name, but a rare Hebrew noun (lzlz[ ayin, zayin, lamed, zayin, lamed contracted to lzaz[ ayin, zayin, aleph, zayin, lamed) meaning dismissal, or entire removal. It is the technical term for the entire removal of sin and guilt of the community, that was symbolized by the sending away of the goat into the wilderness.

11. YESHUA AND BARABBAS • The act of laying on of hands (Leviticus 16:21) onto the Azazel Goat symbolizes the transference of sins from the guilty party (the children of Israel) to the innocent Azazel Goat. The innocent becomes the sin-bearer. Of course, who can deny that this is a perfect picture of Yeshua and not Satan! • So when a crowd had …. the head cohanim persuaded the crowd to ask for Bar-Abba's release and to have Yeshua executed on the stake. (Matthew 27:17-20 CJB) • Bar-ab-bas: Strong: #G912 Orig: of Chaldee origin (1347 and 5); son of Abba; Barabbas = "son of a father or master“ H1347 - From H1342; the same as H1346: - arrogancy, excellency (-lent), majesty, pomp, pride, proud, swelling. • Arrogant, prideful , majestic son of a father or the son of an arrogant, prideful, majestic father. • What we have here is the son of Satan set free and the sons of God Crucified.

12. SATAN • Isaiah 14:7-19 “All the earth is at rest and at peace ….‟ The grave from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the sovereigns of the gentiles. All of them respond and say to you, „Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? „Your arrogance has been brought down to the grave, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.‟ How you have fallen from the heavens, O Helel, son of the morning! …. For you have said in your heart, „Let me go up to the heavens, let me raise my throne above the stars of El, and let me sit in the mount of meeting on the sides of the north; let me go up above the heights of the clouds, let me be like the Most High.‟…”

13. THE LAW OF BLOOD • Leviticus 17: 1-16 And YHVH spoke to Moshe, saying, … “Any man from the house of Yisra‟elwho slaughters a bull or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp, and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to bring an offering to YHVH before the Dwelling Place of YHVH, blood-guilt is reckoned to that man ... And let them no longer slaughter their slaughterings to demons, after whom they whored. This is a law forever for them throughout their generations.” ‟ And say to them, .. And any man of the house of Yisra‟el, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who eats any blood, I shall set My face against that being who eats blood, and shall cut him off from among his people. ….‟ And any being who eats a carcass or what was torn by a beast, be he a native or a stranger, he shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean. And if he does not wash or bathe his body, then he shall bear his crookedness.”

14. PLACE OF WORSHIP • Up until this time the people had set up altars at various to make offerings to Elohim and other Gods. • Here, with the consecration, or setting-apart, of the Priesthood and the inauguration of the Tent of Meeting, YHVH’s Dwelling Place, He establishes that from this point on, “slaughterings” (“qorbanot”) or “drawing near” can only take place where YHVH dwells and has placed His Name. For forty years in the wilderness, that Place moved about with the Children of Yisra’el. Then, after they came into the Land, Elohim placed his Name and ordered His Dwelling Place to be in Shiloh. There it stayed for 369 years; until He told King David to move it to the City of David, next to Jerusalem, where He would await the building of the Hekal or Solomon’s Temple.

15. A HOME FOR GOD • Yeshua answered him, "If someone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. (John 14:23 CJB) • Paul declares in Ephesians 3:14-19: • For this reason, I fall on my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its character. I pray that from the treasures of his glory he will empower you with inner strength by his Spirit, so that the Messiah may live in your hearts through your trusting. Also I pray that you will be rooted and founded in love, so that you, with all God's people, will be given strength to grasp the breadth, length, height and depth of the Messiah's love, yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing, so that you will be filled with all the fullness of God. • (Ephesians 3:14-19 CJB)

16. NEW COVENANT • The "cup of blessing" over which we make the b'rakhah — isn't it a sharing in the bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah? The bread we break, isn't it a sharing in the body of the Messiah? Because there is one loaf of bread, we who are many constitute one body, since we all partake of the one loaf of bread. Look at physical Isra'el: don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? So, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols has any significance in itself? or that an idol has significance in itself? No, what I am saying is that the things which pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice not to God but to demons; and I don't want you to become sharers of the demons! You can't drink both a cup of the Lord and a cup of demons, you can't partake in both a meal of the Lord and a meal of demons. Or are we trying to make the Lord jealous? We aren't stronger than he is, are we? "Everything is permitted," you say? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. "Everything is permitted?" Maybe, but not everything is edifying. (1 Corinthians 10:16-23 CJB)

17. DECLARED AS LAW BY THE APOSTLES • The life-blood of the animal was for atonement. What Paul is addressing in the above scriptures is how unlawful it is to drink both the blood of an animal and the cup of Yeshua, which speaks of His Atonement. This causes a mix of the two in us, defiling us and contaminating the temple, our body. • For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep (1 Corinthians 11:30). • In Acts 15:20 at the Council of Jerusalem, “Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

18. LAWS OF FAMILY PURITY • Leviticus 18:1-5; And YHVH spoke to Moshe, saying, “Speak to the children of Yisra‟el, and say to them, „I am YHVH your Elohim. Do not do as they do in the land of Mitsrayim, where you dwelt. And do not do as they do in the land of Kena‟an, where I am bringing you, and do not walk in their laws. Do My right-rulings and guard My laws, to walk in them. I am YHVH your Elohim. And you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, which a man does and lives by them. I am YHVH. • “Laws of Family Purity” including the fundamental laws of incest and the various forbidden relationships, including mother and son, father and daughter, brother and sister, adultery, forbidden intercourse during a wife’s monthly period, prohibition of homosexuality, bestiality, etc.

19. ROYAL PRIESTHOOD • 1 Peter 2:9, believers of Yeshua are called a royal priesthood and a holy nation. • Hebraically, semen is rendered as blood in the scriptures, as life is in the blood. "The nations of ancient times allowed many incestuous unions. The Roman Empire declared them lawful. Marriage between brother and sister was also common in Egypt, particularly in royal families. The Greeks approved of wedlock with a half-sister. Marriage with a mother, sister, or daughter was recommended by the Persians and was consecrated through mythological traditions (such as the pagan feast of Easter.) • Torah also condemns impure fantasies and immodest glances as we see in Matthew 5:28 where Yeshua says, “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

20. IMITATION OF THE UNGODLY • Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of Yahweh (Leviticus 18:21). • Genesis states that we are to be fruitful and multiply. At Mount Sinai a radical revolution in human morality was introduced. For the first time people were directed to submit their human instincts to a higher moral code and stop imitating the ungodly nations around them. • But you are to keep my laws and rulings and not engage in any of these disgusting practices, neither the citizen nor the foreigner living with you; for the people of the land have committed all these abominations, and the land is now defiled. If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out too, just as it is vomiting out the nation that was there before you. (Leviticus 18:26-28 CJB)

21. MOLEK • YHVH mentions Molek 4 times in these five verses. The word translated Mo-lech or Moloch (the spelling varies), occurs eight times in the Bible, in Leviticus 18:21, 20:2, 3, 4, 5, 1 Kings 11:7, 2 Kings 23:10, Jeremiah 32:35.The Ammonites, Carthaginians and at various times, some Yisra’elites offered and then burned their first-born children to this idol (see Jeremiah 7:31 and Ezekiel 25 & 26). • Its name Molek (mem-lamed-kaf) is also pronounced “Melek” or “King”. It is speculated by the sages that the reason for these offerings of the “first-born” were a perversion of YHVH’s Torah regarding the first-born of B’neiYisra’el, as mentioned in Mikah 6:7; “Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my being?” This idol, usually cast in brass, had the body of a man and the head of an ox. The Carthaginians called this idol “Saturn” and yes, that’s where the Greek name for the planet Saturn came from.

22. SET APART ONES • Leviticus 19:1-2; And YHVH spoke to Moshe, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisra‟el, …„Be (Kedoshim) set-apart ones, for I YHVH your Elohim am (kadosh) set-apart.‟” • “kadosh” - # 6918, is spelled “kuf-dalet-vav-shin”. Root word is “kadash”, #6942, and means “to set apart” or “consecrate”. “Kodesh” is “to be set apart” and “kedoshim” are “those who are set-apart”. Difference between “to set-apart” and “being set-apart” is the “vav”. Kadash is “Kuf-dalet-shin”; “kuf” means to “surround” or “touch”, “dalet” is the “door” and “shin” the letter that represents the name “El Shaddai”. So, “kadash” (to set yourself apart) means “to touch the door of El Shaddai”. The “vav” means “hook” or “connection” (remember the “vav” was the hook that connected the curtains to the columns in the Tent of Meeting). When you add the “vav”, you are Kadosh and thereby as you touch the door, you are connected to El Shaddai (Elohim Sufficient).

23. 51 COMMANDMENTS • 212. Fear one’s mother and father, Leviticus 19:3. • 213. The prohibition of turning to any idol in thought or word, Leviticus 19:4. • 214. The prohibition of making an idol for oneself or for others, Leviticus 19:4. • 215. The prohibition of eating the meat remains from an offering, Leviticus 19:6-8. • 216. The command to leave the corners (pe’a) of the cultivated land unharvested for the sake of the poor, Leviticus 19:10. • 217. The prohibition of harvesting a piece of land all the way out to the corners (pe’a), Leviticus 19:9. • 218. The command to leave the grain that falls (leket) for the poor while harvesting, Leviticus 19:10. • 219. The prohibition of picking up the grain that falls (leket) while harvesting, Leviticus 19:9.

24. 51 COMMANDMENTS • 220. The command to leave one part of the vineyard un-harvested for the sake of the poor, Leviticus 19:10. • 221. The prohibition of harvesting all the fruit of a vineyard, Leviticus 19:10. • 222. The command to leave the grapes that fall (peret) while harvesting for the poor, Leviticus 19:10. • 223. The prohibition of picking up the grapes that have fallen (peret) while harvesting, Leviticus 19:10. • 224. The prohibition of stealing, Leviticus 19:11. • 225. The prohibition of refusing to return a stolen object to its owner, Leviticus 19:11. • 226. The prohibition of swearing to a false testimony about an object of value, Leviticus 19:11. • 227. The prohibition of swearing falsely, Leviticus 19:12.

25. 51 COMMANDMENTS • 228. The prohibition of keeping objects that belong to another person, Leviticus 19:13. • 229. The prohibition of robbing (violently stealing), Leviticus 19:13. • 230. The prohibition of withholding the salary of a worker, Leviticus 19:13. • 231. The prohibition of cursing a fellow man, whether man or woman, Leviticus 19:14. • 232. The prohibition of giving bad advice so that someone makes a mistake, Leviticus 19:14. • 233. The prohibition for a judge to distort justice, Leviticus 19:15.

26. 51 COMMANDMENTS • 234. The prohibition for a judge to honor a prominent person during a trial, Leviticus 19:15. • 235. The command for a judge to judge rightly, Leviticus 19:15. • 236. The prohibition of speaking ill of a fellow man, Leviticus 19:16. • 237. The prohibition of not helping a fellow man who is in danger, Leviticus 19:16. • 238. The prohibition of hating one’s Israelite brother, Leviticus 19:17. • 239. The command to rebuke an Israelite when he acts wrongly, Leviticus 19:17. • 240. The prohibition of shaming a fellow man, Leviticus 19:17.

27. 51 COMMANDMENTS • 241. The prohibition of taking vengeance, Leviticus 19:18. • 242. The prohibition of holding a grudge, Leviticus 19:18. • 243. The command to love one’s neighbor, Leviticus 19:18. • 244. The prohibition of cross breeding animals of two different species, Leviticus 19:19. • 245. The prohibition of sowing two kinds of seed together, Leviticus 19:19. • 246. The prohibition of eating fruit from a tree during its first three years, Leviticus 19:23. • 247. The command about fruit from a tree in its fourth year of life, Leviticus 19:23-24. • 248. The prohibition of eating or drinking like a glutton or drunkard, Leviticus 19:26.

28. 51 COMMANDMENTS • 249. The prohibition of caring for a diviner, Leviticus 19:26. • 250. The prohibition of making predictions through sorcery, Leviticus 19:26. • 251. The prohibition of shaving off the corners of the hair of the head, Leviticus 19:27. • 252. The prohibition of shaving off the corners of the beard, Leviticus 19:27. • 253. The prohibition of tattooing oneself, Leviticus 19:28. • 254. The command to revere the sanctuary, Leviticus 19:24. • 255. The prohibition of practicing divination through an ov (medium), Leviticus 19:31. • 256. The prohibition of practicing spiritism through a yidoni (medium), Leviticus 19:31. • 257. The command to honor the wise, Leviticus 19:32.

29. 51 COMMANDMENTS • 258. The prohibition of deceiving with any kind of measurement, Leviticus 19:35. • 259. The command that scales, weights, and measurements should be exact, Leviticus 19:36. • 260. The prohibition of cursing one’s father or mother, Leviticus 20:9. • 261. The command that the court (Beit Din) burn a person who deserves it, Leviticus 20:14. • 262. The prohibition of following the customs of the Amorites (gentiles), Leviticus 20:23.

30. DEAF AND BLIND • " 'Do not speak a curse against a deaf person or place an obstacle in the way of a blind person; rather, fear your God; I am Adonai. (Leviticus 19:14 CJB) • We’re not to “curse” the “deaf”. “Curse” here is “qahlal” or “feel contempt for” or “treat as insignificant”. And, “deaf” is “cheresh” or “silent”. So, we’re not to treat with contempt, or as insignificant, those who are deaf or silent to what we say to them, as in what we believe. Also, we are not to throw “stumbling blocks”, “mik‟shol” or “give occasion to stumble” in front of those who are “blind”, “iv‟vare” or “have scales over the eyes”. Elohim works differently in each of us according to His purpose. So, let’s be careful how we treat those who don’t “get it” just yet.

31. Rabbi AvrahamGreenbaum, when he wrote, “The code of Holiness contained in our parsha is not one that requires its followers to separate from the material world and live apart in ascetic communities such as in monasteries and the like. On the contrary, true KEDUSHAH comes to a person precisely through living his or her life with family, friends and associates, within the wider community and in the workaday world. Making a living within the boundaries of the halachah, taking into account the needs of the needy, dealing correctly in business, abstaining from all theft and corruption, from hatred, vengeance, etc. etc. It is precisely through keeping these commandments in our everyday material lives, while actually dealing with all that we have to deal with each day, that we become purer.” Rabbi Greenbaum adds, “This ‘purity’ is the KEDUSHAH, the ‘holiness’ which is the defining attribute of the path of life set forth in our parsha. In mystical writings, KEDUSHAH is particularly associated with the mental and spiritual faculties of CHOCHMAH [wisdom], BINAH [understanding] and DA'AS [knowledge], while the very foundation for their healthy functioning is the purity of YESOD, or ‘moral purity‟.”

32. IMMORALITY • Because immorality is a problem chapter 19 is placed between the last chapter of ParshaAcharei Mot and VaYiqra, Chapter 20, which is the conclusion of ParshaKedoshim. Both of these chapters speak of “sexual purity” and the family. • Chapter 20: 1-5: And YHVH spoke to Moshe, saying, “Say to the children of Yisra‟el, „Any man of the children of Yisra‟el, or of the strangers who sojourn in Yisra‟el, who gives any of his offspring to Molek, shall certainly be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molek, so as to defile My set-apart place and to profane My set-apart Name. And if the people of the land at all hide their eyes from the man, as he gives any of his offspring to Molek, and they do not kill him, then I shall set My face against that man and against his clan, and shall cut him off, and all who go whoring after him, even go whoring after Molek – from the midst of their people.”

33. THE WORD WILL BECOME PERMANENT • Everything Elohim does is for a purpose. This parsha takes us back to His purpose. What is His purpose? The purpose of the Creation, the purpose of the Torah and the purpose of Yisra’el was to have a “set-apart people” ~ “kedoshim”. The purpose behind every command, every “mitzvah” is “set-apartness”; to become “kadosh”, to be His “set-apart ones”. YHVH promised us something, through the prophet, in Yirmeyahu 31:31-33, when He said; “See, the days are coming,” declares YHVH, “when I shall make a renewed covenant with the house of Yisra‟el and with the house of Yehudah, not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares YHVH. For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra‟el after those days, declares YHVH: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”

34. HOLY CONDUCT • “You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.”  (Leviticus 20: 26) • During the Temple times, the Cohen Gadol (high priest) was instructed to wear a plate upon his forehead that bore the words “Holy unto the Lord.”  With his every movement, this plate reminded him that He was to be holy. • We also are to remember—when conducting business dealings, meeting strangers, interacting with family and friends, and sitting by ourselves in front of the television or Internet—that we are to be holy in all our conduct. • “But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:15-16) •  May we all lead Holy lives that give glory to the Lord.