Today we get the rules about what these folks could eat and what they couldn't eat. And man oh man, do they get specific...
What I know, is that this little rule didn't stay around for long. I wonder who the first person to eat the pig was, and how he convinced everyone else to break the rules in order to experience the apparent delight one gets from partaking in pork. And did they all die?
Again, as I know we are creeping up on the gay issue (do not mention it now!!!) I want to know how this rule fell by the waist side. Are we picking and choosing? Pork tastes good so people find ways to discredit this rule. See what I'm saying?
We also get into the rules for the lepers. This chapter was redonculous!! It was fo sho cracking me up. I mean, I tried to follow it as best as I could but it was crazy. I would love to see the whole thing played out. I figured someone, somewhere had made a chart as to what the priest had to do when for example,
"examines the spot and there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the rest of the skin but is darker"
check, check, check......CLEAN...come back in seven days.....check, UNCLEAN, come back in two days......check, check, CLEAN ...... UNCLEAN. .... CLEAN.... UNCLEAN
I just thought they were busy with the flawless animal sacrifices....these leprosy checks must have had them up all night...
SO anyhoo that's where we ended. Not too much here only the question of why the food rules got ixned. I think its going to be hard for me to understand why some rules are still to be followed while others are not. (Not including the big 10 of course, I get that those are set apart)
