Food for Our Souls: Parashat HaShavua in Our Lives Vol. 2, Episode 30: Emor, Leviticus 21:1−24:23.

(1) The Speaker of All Creation said to Moshe: Say to the priests, the sons of Aharon, say to them: For a dead person among his people, one is not to make oneself tamei, (2) except for one's own flesh that is close: one's mother, one's father, one's son, one's daughter, and one's brother; (3) also for a virgin sister, near to him who has never belonged to a man, for her one may make oneself tamei. (4) One is not to make oneself tamei as a husband among one's people does, to profane oneself.

(16) The Holy Wholeness spoke to Moshe, saying: (17) Speak to Aharon, saying: A man of your seed, throughout their generations, who has in him a defect is not to come near to bring near the food of his God. (18) Indeed, anyone who has in them a defect is not to come near: anyone who is blind or lame or mutilated or too long-limbed, (19) or anyone that has a broken leg or a broken arm (20) or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one spotted in their eye, or with a scab or with eruptions, or with crushed testicles. (21) Anyone that has a defect, from the seed of Aharon the priest, is not to approach to bring near the fire offering of The Speaker of All Creation, a defect is in them, with the food of the Holy Wholeness they are not to approach, to bring it near. (22) The food offerings of God from the holiest holy portions, or from the holy portions, one may eat; (23) however, the curtain one is not to enter, the altar one is not to approach, for a defect is in one, one is not to profane My sanctuaries; for I am the Speaker of All Creation, the one who hallows them.

(21) A person - when they bring near a slaughter-offering of shalom to the Holy Wholeness - for making a vow-offering or for a freewill-offering - among the herd or among the flock: wholly-sound must it be, for acceptance, any defect there must not be in it. (22) Anything blind, or broken, or mutilated or with spotted-eye or scab or eruptions, you are not to bring near any of these to the Speaker of All Creation; a fire-offering you may not place from any of them, on the altar to the Holy Wholeness. (23) But an ox or a sheep, too long-limbed or stunted, you may sacrifice it as a freewill offering but for a vow offering it will not be accepted. (24) One that is bruised or smashed or torn up or cut out (in the testicles) you are not to bring near to the Speaker of All Creation, in your land these may not be sacrificed.

(1) The Holy Wholeness spoke to Moshe, saying: (2) Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: The Appointed times of the Speaker of All Creation, which you are to proclaim to them (as) proclamations of holiness- these are they, My appointed times. (3) For six days may work/tasks be done, and on the seventh day is Shabbat, an absolute Shabbat, a proclamation of holiness, no kind of work you are to do. It is Shabbat to the Holy Wholeness, throughout all your dwelling places.

(4) These are the appointed times of the Speaker of All Creation, proclamations of holiness, which you are to proclaim at their appointed times: (5) On the first new moon, on the fourteenth after the new moon, between the setting times is Passover to the Holy Wholeness, (6) On the fifteenth day after this New Moon is the pilgrimage festival of matzot to the Speaker of All Creation: for seven days, matzot you are to eat! (7) On the first day a proclamation of holiness shall there be for you, no kind of work you are to do. (8) You are to bring near a fire offering to the Holy Wholeness, for seven days, on the seventh day is a proclamation of holiness, no kind of work you are to do.

(15) Now you are to number for yourselves, from the morrow of the Sabbaths, from the day that you bring the elevated sheaf, seven Sabbaths of days, whole weeks are they to be; (16) until the morrow of the seventh Sabbath you are to number - fifth days, then you are to bring near a grain gift of new crops to the Speaker of All Creation.

(21) And you are to make proclamation on that same day, a proclamation of holiness shall there be for you, no kind of work you are to do - a law for the ages, throughout your dwelling places, into your generations.

(22) Now when you harvest the harvest of your land, you are not to finish off the edge of your field when your harvest it, the full gleaning of your harvest you are not to glean; for the afflicted and for the sojourner you are to leave them, I am the Holy Wholeness.

(23) The Speaker of All Creation spoke to Moshe, saying: (24) Speak to the Children of Israel, saying: On the seventh new month, on day one of the New Moon, you are to have Sabbath ceasing, a reminder by horn blasting, a proclamation of holiness. (25) No kind of work are you to do; you are to bring near a fire offering to the Holy Wholeness.

(26) The Speaker of All Creation spoke to Moshe, saying: (27) Mark, on the tenth after this seventh New Moon, it is the Day of Atonement, a proclamation of holiness shall there be for you. You are to afflict yourselves, and you are to bring near a fire offering to the Holy Wholeness; (28) no kind of work you are to do on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to effect atonement for you before the presence of the Speaker of All Creation your God. (29) Indeed, if any person does not afflict oneself on that same day, they are to be cut off from their kinspeople; (30) and if any person does any kind of work on that same day, I will cause that person to perish from amid their kinspeople. (31) Do no work whatever; a law for the ages, into your generations, throughout all your dwelling places. (32) It is a Shabbat, a complete Shabbat for you, you are to afflict yourselves; on the ninth day after the New Moon, at sunset, from sunset to sunset, you are to make a ceasing of your ceasing.

(39) Mark, on the fifteenth day after the seventh New Moon, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you are to celebrate as pilgrimage the pilgrimage festival of the Holy Wholeness, for seven days: on the first day is a complete Shabbat and on the eighth day is a complete Shabbat. (40) You are to take yourselves, on the first day, the fruit of hadar/beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook. You are to rejoice before the the presence of the Speaker of All Creation your God for seven days. (41) You are to celebrate it as pilgrimage, a pilgrimage festival to the Holy Wholeness, for seven days a year - a law for the ages, throughout your generations: in the seventh New Moon you are to celebrate it as pilgrimage. (42) In huts you are to stay for seven days, every native in Israel is to stay in huts, (43) in order that your generations may know that in huts I had the Children of Israel stay when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I am the Speaker of All Creation your God.

(1) The Holy Wholeness spoke to Moshe, saying: (2) Command the Children of Israel, that they take you oil of olives, clear, beaten, for the light to kindle a lamp, regularly. (3) Outside the curtain of the Covenant in the Tent of Meeting, Aharon is to arrange it, from sunset to daybreak, before the presence of the Speaker of All Creation, regularly - a law for the ages, throughout your generations. (4) He shall set up the lamps on the pure lampstand before the presence of the Holy Wholeness [to burn] regularly.

(17) Now a person - when one strikes down any human life, one is to be put to death, yes, death. (18) One who strikes the life of an animal is to pay for it, life in place of life. (19) And a person - when one renders a defect on another: as one has done, thus is to be done to that one - (20) fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The injury one inflicted on another is to be inflicted on the one. (21) Whoever strikes down an animal is to pay for it, and one who strikes down a human is to be put to death. (22) One standard of judgment shall there be for you; as for the sojourner, so shall the native be, for I, the Speaker of All Creation, am your God.