Leper The 28 th Torah Portion Reading 5 th reading in the Book of Leviticus Leviticus 141 1533 2 Kings 7320 Luke 951 1042 Metzora biblestudyresourcecentercom ID: 330673
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“Leper”
The 28th Torah Portion Reading5th reading in the Book of Leviticus
Leviticus 14:1 – 15:332 Kings 7:3-20Luke 9:51 – 10:42
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The Shadows of the Messiah
Titles of Messiah
• Hope of Israel - Acts 28:20• Mikvah of Israel- Acts 28:20• The Leper -
b.Sanhedrin
98
• Leper of the House of Rabbi -
b.Sanhedrin
98Slide4
Healing Lepers
Leviticus 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: Slide5
Healing Lepers
Matthew 10:7-8 And as you go, preach, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is-at hand." Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Slide6
Lepers, Sin, and Mortality
Leviticus 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: Slide7
Leprosy and Exile
The sages drew a connection between the Torah's laws of leprosy and the exile of the Jewish people. In the Bible, God smote people with leprosy as a
punishment for their sins.Slide8
Show Yourself to the Priest
Leviticus 14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; Slide9
The Two Birds
Leviticus 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: Slide10
The Surviving Bird
Leviticus 14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: Slide11
Bathed with Water
Leviticus 14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. Slide12
Baptism and
MikvahLeviticus 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. Slide13
Immersion and Resurrection
Leviticus 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. Slide14
Immersion and Resurrection
Romans 6:3-7 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into
Messiah Yeshua have been baptized into His death? ... Our old self was crucified
with
Him,
in order
that
our body of
sin
might be done away
with
, so
that we would no
longer be
slaves to sin;
for
he who
has died is
freed
from
sin. Slide15
Touching the Leper
When Mark tells us about Yeshua healing a leper, he says, "Yeshua stretched out His hand
and touched him" (Mark 1:41). By touching the leper,
Yeshua
ren
dered
Himself
ritually
unclean
.Slide16
The Anointed Leper
Leviticus 14:29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD. Slide17
The Leper Messiah
Leviticus 13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: Slide18
Chasidic Explanation
Leper MessiahIt indicates that the redeemer suffers the agoniesand afflictions of Israel's exile. He impatientlywaits for th
e final redemption when He can purify the nation, but until then, He personally suffers the pain of Israel's leprous-like affliction, the agony
of the
ongoing exile. For as long as the exile persists,
the Messiah
is
called
The
Leper. Slide19
Rejected by the Sages
And the rabbis say: "His name is The Leper of the House
of Rabbi, as it is said [in Isaiah 53:4], 'Surely our sicknesses
he himself bore
and
our
sorrow
s
he
carried
, yet we ourselves esteemed
him
s
tricken
,
smitten of
God, and
afflic
ted
.'"
(
b.
Sanhedrin
98b)Slide20
Many Meanings
In the above discussions, we have seen that leprosy illustrates physical mortality and the spiritual malady of sin. At the same time,
it illustrates the strokes and punishments that befall the nation of Israel for covenantal
infidelity
.
The
leper represents Israel
under international
subjugation and driven
into
exile.
The
leprous
house
represents
the
corruption of the
holy
Temple
and its
ultimate destruction.Slide21
The Signature
Isaiah
53:5 One may speak of leprosy as the literal, biblical disease
tzara'at, as an archetype for human disease and mortality, as a
metaphor for the spiritual
corrup
tion
of sin, as a symbol
for
God
'
s
punishments,
or as
an
allusion to
the
sorrows and sufferings of
Israel's
exile
.
In all
cases, Yeshua
offers
the solution:
"
He was pierced
for
our
transgressions, he was
crushed
for
our
iniquities; the
punishment
that brought
us peace was
upon him,
and
by his
wounds we are
healed.“