Emor
Emor ( Biblical Hebrew אֱמֹר 'Sage' [the priests]) denotes a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Leviticus / Wajikra 21–24 (21 BHS , 22 BHS , 23 BHS , 24 BHS ).
It is the cider of the 2nd or 3rd Shabbat in the month of Ijjar .
Essential content
- Prohibition for the priests to defile themselves on a corpse (except for closest blood relatives and the wife)
- Prohibition of priests from practicing certain mourning customs, marrying a woman who has had illegal marital intercourse, or who is from a prohibited marriage or has been divorced
- The high priest is also not allowed to defile himself on the corpse of the father or mother and also not marry a widow
- Regulations on sacrifices, slaughter, the celebration of Shabbat and all other festivals
- Eternal light ( ner tamid ) in the sanctuary, 12 showbreads
- Death penalty for blasphemy of the divine name
- Reimbursement for killing an animal
- Death penalty for murder of a person
- Retribution for damage to a person according to the principle: break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth
Haftara
The associated Haftara is Ezekiel 44.15–31 BHS .
literature
- David Sander: EMOR . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape II . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 396 f . ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
- Selig Bamberger (translator), Raschi's Pentateuch commentary , Goldschmidt, Basel, fourth edition 2002, pp. 376–390.
- Sidratext Wajikra / Leviticus 21-24, 23. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
- Haftaratext Ez 44.15-31 . according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
Web links
- haGalil: Sidrath Emor
- chabad.org: Counting time
- Gesa Shira Ederberg : Emor - Modern Legal Understanding. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, May 19, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
- Gesa Shira Ederberg: Emor - title without power. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, May 8, 2014, accessed April 28, 2018 .
- Konstantin Pal: Emor - Strong together. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, May 15, 2015, accessed April 28, 2018 .
- Daniel Katz: Emor - The sacred art of speaking. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, May 31, 2012, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 128 (414 pp.).