""'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening."
Author: Leviticus 15 Verses #: 19
A normal and natural part of being a women is shedding the lining of the uterus once per month in a discharge of blood. A creator would know this and acknowledge this as fact, and would declare that there is nothing unnatural about the occurence. The holy bible, on the other hand makes menstruation something that makes a woman an untouchable. I would assume that this included little children and breast feeding infants that absolutely require the "touch" of their mother whether she in having her monthly period or not. To refer to a biologic norm as an "impurity" which renders a woman an untouchable and impure speaks to an author and a biblical authority that does not understand biology and implies that Yahweh was completely out of touch with "his" own creation. Clearly, the bible was written by male priests 4,000 years ago who had no knowledge of science and biology and apparently little actual direct revelation from an all knowing "creator" who saw women as lesser beings who were impure and untouchable once per month.
Your presumption is false. You presume that because menstruation is a natural bodily function, and the Bible defines it as something that makes someone impure, then the Biblical author cannot be God. You further imply that breast feeding or touching one's children would be forbidden, though the text doesn't address this. (Other passages imply that children were not weened until three years of age.) You come to these conclusions because you do not understand Torah. This passage has nothing to do with a woman's place in society. Rather, it is about the sanctity of blood. "The life is in the blood." This is the premise from which all kosher law is derived. A woman was impure because of the flow of blood. This represents the purity of the blood. Rabbi Paul later explains that Life is given through the blood of Yeshua Ha Meshiach (Jesus the Messiah). Yahweh is simply making the blood the most important thing, the Holy thing, because his Holy and Annointed One, The Messiah, would shed his blood for the ransom of many.
ReplyDeleteThere are many laws about impurity because Jah wanted his people to be seperate from the pagan nations they lived within. They were a holy and chosen people, seperated and sanctified by Jah for his good pleasure. Also, this passage applies to Jews living in Palestine during the time of Moses until Messiah. Does it apply to us today then? Perhaps only in the way I have mentioned, that it demonstrates the sanctity of the blood.