chunkofcoal
Messianic Christian
They didn't make void the law of God regarding honoring their father and mother because they were "ceremonially washing their hands"; they made void the law of God -to honor ones father and mother - by taking what they could've (should've) helped their parents with and calling it "Corban"- translated as a "gift".Moses ruled all by himself from his seat (Exodus 18:13), Jethro advised him to appoint leaders to settle lower Court matters, Moses annointed his older brother Aaron as priest. The two sons of Aaron were disqualified from service (Leviticus 10:1-3) before the people because they made a "strange fire". Yeshua mocked the hypocrites by telling them they sit in Moses seat as they teach the people "strange" fiery doctrines. Moses says "honor thy father and mother", the Pharisees make void Moses law (Mark 7:8-13) through ceremonially washing their hands, a duty solely belonging to the priest.
I read something recently about "corban" and thought it was enlightening.
"Many people interpret the Hebrew word for sacrifice, “korban”, as surrendering something for the good of God, a sort of ritual of exchange whereby man gives his god an animal or some food item and through this concession he appeases his anger and pleases his god. In Judaism, this interpretation is rejected for a simple reason: God, the Creator of all, and the All Powerful, does not need a thing; He does not ask humans to give up anything for Him or lose anything for Him. The Jewish interpretation of the term “korban” is from the Hebrew root of the word which means ‘to get closer’. Through the act of sacrificing, a person (Jew and non-Jew alike) comes closer to God. The sacrifice is an expression of a close, intimate relationship between man and God."
"...in Judaism, the sacrifice is an expression of the close relationship between man and God. But in order for man to get closer to God, he must be worthy. The clear-cut demand expressed by the prophets is that man must live up to the high standards of morality. Only a person who acts with compassion, does acts of charity, opens his heart to others – only such a person is worthy of being close to God.
This perspective that guided the admonishments of the prophets, and about which they warned time and time again, was that the sacrifice was not a means through which man could surrender something and thus appease God’s anger. This misconception led people to behave abominably, only to then rush to the Temple to sacrifice a sacrifice and assume mistakenly that they had been saved from God’s wrath over their misdemeanor. The prophets wanted to abolish this misconception and even warned that it would lead to the destruction of the Temple."
One can read the rest here - פרשת ויקרא – תשע"ח - parasha
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