Our reading challenge for the day is Leviticus 11-15. I'll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?
Today's readings are all about the distinction between unclean and clean. The directives God issues run from what Israel could eat to what they wore, how they would live, and how they would conduct themselves when disease was suspected or when bodily fluids were discharged. We might find some wise medical ideas here but I wonder if we find something more serious - that the people of Israel were consecrated in a way so as to be different from the people around them and to symbolize purity in all they did.
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