Parasha Metzora 5784 — Toby Manolis
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Principle: Walking in humility is not just important, but a requirement in order to have an intimate relationship with G-D.
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“When one has a plague of tza’arat, he is to be brought to the kohen.
The kohen is to examine him, and behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin and it has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling,
it is a chronic tza’arat in the skin of his flesh, and the kohen is to pronounce him unclean. He is to isolate him, for he is unclean.
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He is to examine the mark, and behold, if the mark is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and appears deeper than the wall,
then the kohen is to go out of the house to the door and close up the house for seven days.
Then the kohen is to come again on the seventh day, and behold, if the mark has spread in the walls of the house,
then the kohen is to command that they take out the stones which are marked and throw them into an unclean place outside of the city.
He shall also have the inside of the house scraped all throughout, and they are to dump the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
They may then take other stones and put them in the place of those stones. Likewise he can take other mortar, and plaster the house.
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Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on account of the Cushite woman he married, because he had married a Cushite woman.
They asked, “Has Adonai spoken only through Moses? Hasn’t He also spoken through us?” Adonai heard it.
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Adonai’s anger burned against them, and He left them.
When the cloud lifted up from above the Tent, behold, Miriam had tza’arat, like snow! As Aaron turned toward her, behold, she had tza’arat!
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Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.
Uzziah was 16 years old when he became king, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah from Jerusalem.
He did what was right in the eyes of Adonai just as his father Amaziah had done.
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But when he became strong, his heart grew so haughty that he acted corruptly. For he trespassed against Adonai his God by entering into the Temple of Adonai to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
Then Azariah the kohen with 80 valiant kohanim of Adonai followed him in.
They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Adonai, but for the kohanim, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the Sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully. You will have no honor from Adonai Elohim.”
Then Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the kohanim tza’arat broke out on his forehead right in front of the kohanim in the House of Adonai, beside the incense altar.
When Azariah the chief kohen and all the other kohanim stared at him, behold, his forehead had tza’arat! So they rushed him out of there. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out because Adonai had smitten him.
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Principle: Walking in humility is not just important, but a requirement in order to have an intimate relationship with G-D.
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Six things Adonai hates, yes, seven are abominations to Him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that run to evil,
a false witness who spouts lies, and one who stirs up strife among brothers.
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Now it was just before the feast of Passover. Yeshua knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them until the end.
While the seder meal was happening, the devil had already put in the heart of Judah from Kriot that he should hand over Yeshua.
Yeshua knew that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
So He gets up from the meal and lays aside His outer garment; and taking a towel, He wrapped it around His waist.
Then He pours water into a basin. He began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel wrapped around Him.
Then He comes to Simon Peter, who says to Him, “Master, are You going to wash my feet?”
Yeshua responded, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”
Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Yeshua answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”
Simon Peter said to Him, “Master, then not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”
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So after He had washed their feet and put His robe back on and reclined again, He said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you?
You call Me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Master’—and rightly you say, for I am.
So if I, your Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash each other’s feet.
I have given you an example—you should do for each other what I have done for you.
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Principle: Walking in humility is not just important, but a requirement in order to have an intimate relationship with G-D.
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