SHEMINI Part 2

Shalom, Shalom. We commence our focus upon the PARASHAT SHEMINI by placing our ATTENTION on the interpretation of the title. The IVRI (Hebrew) transliteration SHEMINI is the word for the number eight. The number eight is indicative of a new beginning.
The SIDRAH opens by making the following statement, “It was on the eighth day, Moses summoned Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel. He said to Aaron: Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt-offering - unblemished; and offer them before HaShem. And to the Children of Israel speak as follows: Take a he goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a sheep in their first year - unblemished - for a burnt offering. And a bull and a ram for a peace offering to slaughter before HaShem, and a meal-offering mixed with oil; for today HaShem appears to you.” (Leviticus 9:1-4) Prior to these instructions, the NAVI Moshe had under went seven days of erecting the MISHKAN (Tabernacle), offering the prescribed services and taking it down. During this period, AARON and his sons had been undergoing a seven day inauguration into the PRIESTHOOD. No doubt, they observed MOSHE REBEYNU during their time of inauguration as a VISUALIZATION of what their duties would be, yea, the NAVI was disclosing a lifestyle of how to experience a CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD that would give rise to a manifestation of His CONCEALED ATTRIBUTES.

The instructions on how to experience a CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD that gives rise to the MANIFESTATION of His CONCEALED attributes are destined to be understood at a principle level. The reasoning for the instructions needing to be understood from a principle level is that the Jewish People’s perspective of G-d is destined to EVOLVE. This EMET (truth) was foreseen by the NAVI ZECHARIAH who declared, “HaShem will be King over all the land; on that day HaShem will be One, and His Name will be One.” (Zechariah 14:9) In this prophetic utterance, it is disclosed that a time would come whereas HaShem would become known as ONE. In other words, the knowledge of G-d would evolve from PERSONAL to IMPERSONAL. The evolution of the KNOWLEDGE of G-d from PERSONAL to IMPERSONAL effects the way that we view the instructions. The instructions are given from the perspective of a PERSONAL G-d, when the perspective evolves, ONE ascends out of the concept of G-d and I into ONE with G-d. To attempt to serve G-d from the perspective of PERSONAL after ascending into the IMPERSONAL would make the instructions from a personal perspective JURASSIC. Thus the instructions are to be observed from the PRINCIPLE.

The IMPLEMENTATION of the instructions given on the eighth day were destined to engender a VISIBLE MANIFESTATION of the CONCEALED ATTRIBUTES of G-d. These instructions executed from a PRINCIPLE UNDERSTANDING will give rise to a manifestation within the PHYSICAL and MENTAL BODIES of the human conscious experience. Just as the KOHANIM (PRIESTHOOD) had to submit to the instructions of the NAVI Moshe in order to bring forth a VISIBLE MANIFESTATION of G-d, one must submit to the instructions of those who ECHAD has sent in order to experience an EPIPHANY that gives rise to a VISIBLE MANIFESTATION of ECHAD in the PHYSICAL and MENTAL BODIES.