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May 1, 2015
By bethmordecai
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Parashat Aharei Mot-K’doshim 2015/5775 (Triennial II) — “For the Life of the Flesh is in the Blood”

Parashat Aharei Mot-K'doshim 2015/5775 (Triennial II) -- "For the Life of the Flesh is in the Blood" The Torah teaches us that one of the key purposes to sacrifice animals is to limit capital punishment.  When the blood of an animal is spilled on an altar, it sufficiently replaces the need to spill the blood of a human being (Leviticus 17:11). Why is animal blood a sufficient replacement for human blood? How does this practice relate to the Christian teaching that the spilling of "the blood of Christ" forgives the sins of humankind? Why does blood represent the life force of a living creature's life force? How do the laws of kashrut honor the notion that "the life of the[...]

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