Purity Laws
What is the difference between ritual and moral impurity?
Ritual impurity is something on the outside that can be easily cleaned.
Moral impurity is a "heart issue." A bit more complex and more serious.
How many of the Korbanot are for sins?
Bonus Points (100+) if you give me the names in Hebrew.
Burnt Offering
Purification (Sin) Offering
Guilt Offering
When is the Yovel?
Every 7 years?
Every 50 years?
What are the sections of the Tabernacle?
Outer Courtyard
Holy Place
Holy of Holies
If I refuse to follow the dietary laws, and eat pork out of spite, is that moral or ritual impurity?
Moral
Name 3 animals used in the Temple Offerings.
Ram, Sheep, Ox, Bull, Goat, She-Goat, Turtle Dove
What laws do the Shemitah and Yovel share?
Leaving the land untouched and available to the poor.
Once a year–Yom Kippur.
What is Corpse Impurity?
How was it fixed?
Whenever a person touches a dead body or stands on a ground made impure by corpse impurity (Graveyard).
Must be sprinkled with water mixed with ashes of the red heifer.
Where would the blood of community offerings be placed?
Altar of Incense, in the Holy Place
Why was the Kingdom of Judah exiled for 70 years to Babylonia.
They failed to keep 70 consecutive Shemittot.
How did they determine which priest did what job in the Tabernacle/Temple?
How many times could you offer the incense?
Lots
Once in your life
Why is corpse impurity so severe/important to fix?
It involves death, which is the opposite of what God and the Temple represent–Life.
What area in the Temple was the Red Heifer slaughtered?
Trick Question!
It was slaughtered on the Mount of Olives facing towards the Temple.
It wasn't an offering.
How was land "sold" in Israel?
Land was evaluated by how many harvests were left until the Yovel?
How did they make the blue color used in the Temple?
By Crushing Murex Snails.
Paul did a nazarite vow, but he shaved his head outside of Jerusalem, Why?
Corpse Impurity.
I'm a man who stole from my neighbor?
What's the procedure.
What offering do I have to bring?
What animal could I use?
You first have to ask for forgiveness.
Pay back what you stole + 20% on top
You had to bring an Asham offering.
You had to bring a male ram?
What was the Mesopotamian equivalent of Yovel?
What was different about it?
Mīšarum.
It was for certain citizens and it was only done during certain times at the king's bidding.
Why are the colors in Tabernacle mentioned in the order that it is mentioned?
Denotes levels of holiness to the corresponding sections of the Tabernalce.