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The Most Difficult Chapters of the Hebrew Bible
Leviticus 11 through 15 are long speeches from god to moses about holiness and commonness and purity and impurity. These for me, still to day, even though i really think there's amazing wisdom here, these are the most difficult chapters of the hebrew bible for me to read. If you just read them at the surface level, you really, you'll get nothing out of it. When you see how they're deeply woven into the vocabulary and themes of the torra that have been on re cycle over and over and over again, all of those features begin to pop with significance. Another level that gains new insight is to do some sympathetic cross cultural imagining on our part