{"id":6564,"date":"2015-06-14T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2015-06-14T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:21:52","slug":"family-purity-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/family-purity-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"What about the family purity laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a question I got today from a woman about the family purity laws<\/strong> of Lev 12 and 15.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have this big questionmark when it comes to purity laws.\u00a0How did Yeshuah fullfill the these laws?\u00a0I haven&#8217;t been able to\u00a0find an answer to for a very long time and I hope you could \u00a0help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my answer. Hopefully this will help some of you as well. (Your thoughts and comments will be appreciated!):<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Shalom K\u2014,<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let\u2019s first establish one thing.When we say \u201cfulfill\u201d as per Matt 5:17, we don\u2019t mean \u201cto do away with\u201d or \u201cdestroy\u201d as the mainstream church de facto infers from this passage. The Greek word means \u201cto bring to its fullest completion\u201d or \u201cto make full.\u201d This is the opposite of rendering the laws of the Torah obsolete and irrelevant to the redeemed believer\u2019s life. Yeshua then goes on to explain in the rest of the Sermon on the Mount how both the letter and the spirit of the law are fully applicable to the life of his disciples. Curiously, the Jewish elite of Yeshua\u2019s day focused more on the letter of the law obedience and often missed the spirit of the law, whereas in mainstream Christianity today, the focus is often more on the spirit rather than on the letter. Men just can\u2019t seem to get the right balance! Yet Yeshua was perfectly balanced and presented a full, complete understanding of the Torah and urged his followers to walk out both the letter and the spirit, and declared that those who do both are the most pleasing to the Father (e.g., see John 4:23\u201324).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now with regard specifically to the purity laws, Yeshua didn\u2019t come to abolish them or any other laws. Having said that, to keep any of the laws of the Torah exactly as the Israelites kept them (in a letter of the law manner) all conditions that existed then when the laws were given must be exactly the same today. What are these conditions? Women still go through their menstrual cycles. That hasn\u2019t changed. Husbands need to refrain from physical relation with their wives during this time. This hasn\u2019t changed. With regard to the blood touching things such as the woman, bedding, couches, or other people, some things in this arena have changed. We now have feminine hygiene products that keep the flow contained. These things didn\u2019t exist in antiquity, so others touching the blood is no longer an issue today. We have running water, and flush toilets and lots of paper products to keep us clean. Beyond that, it\u2019s probably a good thing for a woman to be alone during the time of her cycle due to physical and emotional issues that can make being around her rather difficult. However, with women now in the work force, it may not be possible for her to sequester herself \u201coutside the camp\u201d for a week or more. At the very least, her family needs to be more understanding at these times when life and death are occurring in her body, and they need to \u201cgive her space.\u201d The caring and loving husband needs to lead by his good example in this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There are other aspects to the family purity laws that I haven\u2019t touched on in this brief discussion, but I hope this gives you a good basis to understand the overall subject. In brief, we do the best we can to observe these laws\u00a0by\u00a0maintaining good hygienic practices,husbands keeping their distance sexually from their wives during this time. The Torah teaches that blood, human and animal, needs to be respected and properly disposed of. Excellent hygienic practices is a big step in fulfilling these Torah requirements. This is my quick answer to a complex issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">May YHVH bless you for endeavoring to love him more fully by keeping is commandments!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'What about the family purity laws?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/family-purity-laws\/',contentID: 'post-6564',suggestTags: 'Bloody Discharges,Cleanliness,Family Purity Laws,Hygiene,Leviticus,Menstrual cycle,sex',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question I got today from a woman about the family purity laws of Lev 12 and 15. 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