Abba YHVH, thank You for awakening us to a new day filled with Your mercy and steadfast love. Guide our thoughts, words, and actions so that they bring honor to Your Name. Let Your Word dwell richly within us as we study Your commands and walk in obedience.
Baruch YHVH.
“And the priest shall look upon him, and pronounce him unclean if the plague be deeper than the skin; it is the plague of tzara’at, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean.”
- Vayikra (Leviticus) 13:3 (YAH Scriptures)
The Torah’s instruction regarding the proclamation of ritual impurity may seem harsh to our modern ears, yet it reveals YHVH’s deep concern for purity, truth, and restoration. When a person showed signs of tzara’at, the priest was commanded to inspect and openly proclaim the person’s condition - not to shame them, but to protect the community and set in motion the process of cleansing.
In today’s terms, this mitzvah teaches us the importance of acknowledging spiritual or moral defilement honestly and not pretending that all is well when it is not. When we confess and proclaim what is unclean in our lives, we make room for YHVH to cleanse and renew us. Silence and concealment only deepen separation from Him and from others.
The act of proclaiming impurity was also communal - it reminded the people that holiness is not an individual pursuit but a shared covenant responsibility. In a world where many hide behind appearances of righteousness, this commandment calls us back to transparency before YHVH and our brothers and sisters.
Just as the priest’s words once set the tone for healing, our words today can bring either concealment or clarity. Let us be careful to speak truthfully about our condition before Elohim, so that His mercy can begin its transforming work within us.
To proclaim impurity is not to declare defeat - it is to admit the need for divine restoration. A humble heart that says, “I am unclean; cleanse me, YHVH,” is already on the path to holiness. May we never fear that moment of truth, for it is there that grace meets honesty and healing begins.
Abba YHVH, Elohim of mercy and truth, we come before You in humility, recognizing that apart from Your cleansing we remain unfit to stand in Your presence. Purify us from all defilement of body, mind, and spirit. Help us not to hide behind false appearances but to walk openly before You, trusting in Your compassion.
May Your Ruach Ha’Qodesh continually remind us of the need for purity and repentance. Teach us to speak truth in love, to confess where we have fallen short, and to support one another in the journey toward holiness. May our lives become living testimonies of Your redemptive power, proclaiming not our righteousness, but Yours alone.
Let every word we speak and every action we take bring honor to Your Name. Guard our hearts today from deceit and hypocrisy, and fill us with Your shalom that surpasses all understanding.
Baruch YHVH.
“Hear, O Yisra’el: YHVH is our Elohim, YHVH is one.
And you shall love YHVH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.
And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart.
And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
- Devarim (Deuteronomy) 6:4–9
Until tomorrow! Shalom.