{"id":4600,"date":"2014-04-05T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:13:37","slug":"on-family-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/05\/on-family-purity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Family Purity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leviticus 15<\/strong> discusses the family purity laws. This is a tough subject that spouses should discuss with each other and ask YHVH for wisdom on how to implement them. Holiness and purity is very important to YHVH in all situations. Men, at the very least, are to refrain from all physical relations with their wives during her monthly flow. Any man who has a problem with this needs to repent of selfishness, uncontrolled passions and failing to give his wife space during a difficult time in her life. Sin has consequences, whether we understand what they are or not, so why risk it? YHVH takes his laws seriously and blessings or curses befall us vis-\u00e0-vis our relationship to them. Check your heart attitude here. Are you serious about obeying YHVH? Or at this point, are you content to ignore his Word and, in effect, rip pages out of the Scriptures arrogantly saying, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t apply to me\u201d? Didn\u2019t the serpent say something like this to Adam and Eve at the Tree of Knowledge about the Word of Elohim?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/05\/on-family-purity\/attachment\/33375880\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4601\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4601\" alt=\"33375880\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/33375880-257x300.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/33375880-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/33375880-877x1024.jpg 877w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/33375880.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leviticus 15:1\u201333,<\/strong> Regarding bodily emissions, what lessons can we learn from these verses on how YHVH views us as being the temples of his Set-Apart Spirit? How are we to treat our bodies with respect and to care for them in a way that glorifies YHVH?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leviticus 15:19\u201324,<\/strong> The laws of <i>niddah<\/i> apply to a women in her menstrual cycle. This is an area that many take for granted, but not YHVH in his Torah. A woman\u2019s body produces life or death depending on whether an egg has been fertilized or not during her monthly cycle. There are many spiritual ramifications to this, and YHVH does not treat this matter lightly. While her egg is passing from her body she is in a state of impurity since, in a sense, death is occurring (an unfertilized egg is passing out). It is a time of grieving and emotional turmoil for the woman. This is NOT the time for a man to approach his wife sexually. To do so, as already noted, is strictly forbidden (Lev 18:19).<\/p>\n<p>Consider the benefits to the marriage of the husband and wife separating themselves sexually and emotionally at this time each month, and how it can benefit and enrich a marriage. The man learns self control and selflessness in that he is given the opportunity to be extra solicitous of his wife\u2019s needs without expecting anything in return. What\u2019s more, how much sweeter their time of intimacy will be when the do come back together intimately. The old adage, absence makes the heart grow fonder, could apply here.<\/p>\n<p>The Torah considers a woman to be unclean for at least seven days, even if her flow lasted only one day. So at the minimum a man is to be separated from his wife (giving her an emotional break) for at least seven days, if not longer. On the eighth day (at the minimum) or the next day after her flow has stopped, she is no longer considered unclean (<i>The ArtScroll Tanach Series Vayikra<\/i>, p. 247). Eight is the biblical number signifying new beginnings. 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