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Heretics Like UsHeretics Like UsPep Talk - Deuteronomy 01-03At the beginning of a long weekend, prepare for a reading of Deuteronomy.  It took us 6 months to read the first 4 books of Torah this year, and  this last book 'second book of the law' may seem like a remake of a familiar movie. What's the editorial ax being ground this time? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-3019 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsWomen's Choices - Numbers 36Did the daughters of Zelophehad lost their hard-won property rights here - or were they preserved?  Is that a footnote, or another contrast that throws the rest of the covenant in relief? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-2907 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsExceptions Prove Rules - Numbers 35Is it just a digression, a footnote, to lay out 4 dozen towns for Levites, 6 of them to be cities of refuge?  Or does the exception prove the rule, both in the priestly role, and in the sanctuary offered accused in the face of vengeance? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-2812 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsTribal Turf - Numbers 34Get out your maps, and track the claims of ancestral homelands for the 12 tribes in Palestine.  Is this simply an early land claim for the 21st century state of Israel?  God forbid! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-2709 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsBalanced Equities - Numbers 34-36As we wrap up the wandering, we start negotiating the patrimonies of the tribes entering the promised land - with the exception of the Levites and their cities and those of refuge - and a footnote about those daughters of Zelophehad.  Footnotes? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-2614 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRecap by Stages - Numbers 33How did it take us so long to wander in the wilderness?  Let's sum up the trip once more, retrace our steps, and wonder.... Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-2513 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsStraddling a Line - Numbers 32What do you make of the 2.5 tribes across the Jordan in the Transjordan?  Have they got the same 'skin in the game' as the others?  Do we have such in-laws and cousins, in ecumenical and ethnographic terms? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-2413 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsVengeance - Numbers 31The wandering refugees get permission to hit back against the dominant  Midianites - read too often since as justification for genocidal wars by dominant nations against weaker ones... Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-2317 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsWoman's Word - Numbers 30A woman's word can bind the household, the clan, in buying and selling.  In a change of relationship, a new patriarch must get notice, and disown or accept the obligations she has undertaken on our behalf.  Easy? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-2208 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsFestival Reminders - Numbers 29Now the big 'high holidays', the pilgrimage festivals, in the annual cycle - and what are yours in comparison? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-2111 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsTime Well Wasted - Numbers 28So, compare this worship life of sacrifice to our own - lavish, communal, complex? notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-2010 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsPrepare to Party - Numbers 28-33The daily, weekly, monthly sacrifices are only the underlying rhythm - the foundation for the great festivals.  Rather than deride their complexity, we might reflect on our anemic observances? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-1953 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsWhen Daughters CountDaughters of Zelpophehad - without brothers - get to keep the clan's allotment of land. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-1809 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRe-Mustered Counts - Numbers 26Counting the ranks again, including the clans within the tribes - collective shared benefits and burdens Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-1715 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsPhineas the Cop - Numbers 25More than an individual romance, assimilating to the dominant host culture is an existential threat to the people.  Phineas enforces separation. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-1608 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsBalaam's Vindication - Numbers 24Balaam sticks to his brief, and knows who's his boss - bless Israel, don't curse Notes from www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-1509 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsBalaam's Showdown - Numbers 23Balak wants him to curse, God says bless - Balaam is caught between -  Notes from www.heresticslikeus.com2022-06-1410 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsBalaam's Ass - Numbers 22The donkey outthinks the prophet - for now Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-1314 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsBarak on the Brink - Numbers 22-27Barak and Balaam, and mustering on the banks of the Jordan, Israel's migrants are coming to the end of wilderness wandering - are we the xenophobic locals, or the fee-for-service pundits, or allies and advocates for the raggedy band? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-1249 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSnake on a Stick - Numbers 21Sure, this magic is 'snake on a stick'. -the story is the detour around Edom, to come at the promised land from the east rather than from the south. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-1113 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsWater From a Rock - Numbers 20A replay of the waters of Meribah, complaining still after nearly 40 years - and given water from a rock still Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-1011 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRed Heifer Law - Numbers 19When it's this weird, just do it!  The response to contact with a dead body includes water with ashes of the red heifer... Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0911 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsKorah Took - Numbers 18Aaron won, but owes a tithe back on his tithes, reminder of the risks of self-serving over-reaching priesthood in the shadow of Korah's rebellion - do you really owe the commonwealth before your personal gratification?  Yes. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0813 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSprouting Stick - Numbers 17Reinforcing Aaronic claims, left with 11 other tribal leaders' sticks in the hoy place, his staff sprouts fresh buds, blossoms, and almonds.  Someday,  the Messiah will hold that stick, eh? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0709 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsIncense Stops PlagueThe Korahite rebellion gets some swallowed up, a plague stopped by incense after 17,400 deaths, extablishing the legitimate authority of Aaronic priesthood - or does it? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0614 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsMagic Moments - Numbers 16-21Crossing the midpoint of Numbers, the end of wilderness wandering, including bits of magic: ground opening to swallow rebels, red heifer law, water from a rock, snake on a stick - what will you make of it all? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0654 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsGolus, Galut - Numbers 15Applying the 'if-then' rules 'as if', even though in a state of 'not yet' or 'no longer', might still provide moral guidance for choice - and the apparently draconian punishments can be 'read down' by Talmudic reasoning, eh? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-06-0416 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsMinority Dissent - Numbers 14Caleb and Joshua alone resist the majority report of the other 10 consultants - and counsel courage Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0314 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsConsultants' Reports - Numbers 1310 out of 12 spies, scouts, or consultants get cold feet and warn the people away from the Promised Land, with tales of superhuman giants. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0210 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSibling Rivalry - Numbers 12Aaron and Miriam claim equality with Moses - God demurs, and dooms all 3 to die in the desert - after giving Miriam a case of tzara'at and quarantine outside the camp. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-06-0108 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsWhiners - Numbers 11Some of us are whining and whinging, and craving, but not construing our needs and appetites - angering God Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-3114 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsPacing in OrderImagine 12 tribes arrayed around the tent: 3 on each of 4 sides.  Which leads out when they break camp and relocate, which escort the holy things, and which act as rearguard?  Imagine then the re-enactments for millennia since, if only between ears and behind foreheads! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-3010 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSpies and Rebels - Numbers 10-15From the south, 12 spies are sent to scout the Promised Land - 10 report back scared, to advise against entering. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2950 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsPassover PlansWho can participate, if their unclean status is not within their control?  Who should be invited beyond 'us'? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-2809 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsLamps and LevitesWhose job is it to keep the home fires burning?   Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2709 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsAnte Up - Numbers 07Here's a long (24 minutes) repetitive tale of a procession of 12 tribes in turn delivering the same set of gifts, regardless of their size or resources - to stay in the game as an equal tribal partner. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2624 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsNazirites - Numbers 06It's not just by birth - but also by voluntary vows - that you can belong to the elites.  Remember Samson, or Samuel? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2508 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsQuarantine Jealousy - Numbers 05Separating out the people with unclean skin or contact with dead bodies is one thing - but dealing with a jealous husband without proof of his wife's infidelity demands a harder ritual! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2415 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsElite Jobs - Numbers 04Here are the job descriptions for the elites of the Aaronic priesthood, who would handle the holiest things, to pack them up to move. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-2313 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsCounting - Numbers 04-09From mustering to other ways of counting: us and them, clean and unclean, if this then that - from Passover to jealous husbands, enjoy the week! www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2255 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsLevites Like Us - Numbers 03Drilling down into the specific duties of the priests, particularly in breaking camp to move the people into the wilderness.   Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2115 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsFour-Square - Numbers 02So line up those mustered men of military age, by tribes, on each of four sides of the tent in Sinai.  Imagine, 603,500 arrayed in order - or the variety of re-enactments since, at in-gathering festivals.   Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-2013 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsCensus - Numbers 01Do you imagine 600 thousand military-aged men (let alone the complementary kids and women) arrayed in order In 12 tribal groups?  Oh, yeah?   Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1916 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsMustering - Numbers 01-03Is it a census or a military muster, or just a normative imaginary pageant desert?  We start 3 days, 3 chapters of recitals of the tribes, assembled on the 4 sides of the tent - and implicitly, a model for the people organized around a first temple, exile, second temple, and diaspora since.  Try it! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1933 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsTax Planning, Real and Personal Property - Leviticus 27Almost like an appendix, hekdesh - what does it mean to 'redeem' a person by paying what's owed, according to Leviticus? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1813 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsPromises and Threats - Leviticus 26These are the consequences of infidelity, in the divine ecology of Leviticus.  If you seek right relations, or if you maltreat creation, there will be outcomes. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1714 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSabbath for the Land - Leviticus 25Not just the people, but the land gets a break, standing in for God - leave it to volunteer enough for the humans... Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-1616 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsJubilee Vision - Leviticus 25-27Here's the subversive climax of the Leviticus approach to 'us' and 'ours'.  Beyond sabbath and sabbatical, how about every 50 years we just redistribute all the land back - and let the land have sabbath, lest it vomit us up and out? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1542 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsLight and Bread, Eye-for-an-Eye - Leviticus 24Keep your lamps lit, in routines and rituals - then the arguments of proportionate responses to offences, rather than escalating vigilante feuds - and a strange story of an offender being stoned - or was he, if witnesses had to stand before the stones with him? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1408 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRe-Creational Holy-Days - Leviticus 23From our culture of 24/7/365, can we imagine this rhythm of festivals, mandatory in-gathering?  Passover, Shavuot, in our spring, plus Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur through High Holidays in our fall, set a higher standard, eh? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1318 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsQualified or Unqualified - Leviticus 21Let's wonder about priests for a while, even if it seems esoteric and archaic, to glib liberals, smugly satisfied with our cults of credentialing, and our myths of meritocracy - perhaps this will help us get over ourselves? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1208 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRestricted Uses - Leviticus 22I love how this chapter reminds me of administration of religious charities, and hate how familiar are the abuses of the gifts we give, and the way we manipulate the 'unholy trinity' of 'benefit-burden-control' around assets entrusted to higher purposes! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1210 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsCapital Crimes - Separated - Leviticus 20Focus on the punishments a bit today.  Being cut off from the people, 'beyond the pale', into the desert, effects 'put to death' in the original imagined context, but for 3,000 years since, 'capital punishment' means 'separation'.  Don't miss the image beyond exclusion from the people, of the land itself vomiting up the offenders, spewing them out as it had the tribes before us.   Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-1013 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRoutines and Rituals - Leviticus 19'Love your neighbour as yourself', v 18b - sure, let's just skip the routines of gleaning, in our modern barbaric cults of productivity and efficiency, and sentimentalize a half-verse as a 'golden rule'! This is a great chapter about abuse of power, too, in a culture assuming slavery and patriarchy - but we simply reduce it to jokes about mixed fabrics.  Shame... Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-0913 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRites and Rights - Week 4 - Leviticus 19-24'Love your neighbour as yourself' - and a lot of procedural justice wisdom - learn to 'read down' the capital punishment laws in marginalized exile, without watering down in relativism like the glib liberals we are! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-0946 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsModesty - Leviticus 18Ready or not, 2/3 of the way through Leviticus, the hot-button texts used in our culture wars to proof-text about sexual identity, orientation, and expression. 'Covering one's nakedness' or participating in Moloch's cult, here we come! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-0709 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsWithhold or Indulge - Leviticus 17We get to the 'Holiness Code' proper today, for the rest of this week and next - if you want to belong, you have to behave! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-0609 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsScapegoats and Atonement - Leviticus 16There's always a pair of hairy-goats, in the ritual of collective atonement, one for sacrifice, the other sent 'beyond the pale', 'to Azazel'.  How can you tell which is which?  You can't, except by drawing lots. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-0507 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsDischarge - Leviticus 15Let's talk zav first, discharge from a penis, before semen, let alone niddah menstrual blood - perspective on continence norms. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-0407 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRestoratives and Infection Control - Leviticus 14The rituals of recognizing tzara'at, when it's present, and when it's gone, don't mean priests treat or fix it - umpires, really. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-0309 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSymptoms - Leviticus 13tzara'at - became in Greek lepra, and we get leprosy - this translation leaves it strange, as tzara'at - visible on skin, to start this week! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-05-0216 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsPurity and Pollution - Week 3 - Leviticus 13-18Glib liberals like us may look down on talk like 'unclean' or 'untouchable', so let's try the diction of 'purity' from food regulation, and 'pollution' from environmental regulation - we're heading toward the Holiness Code, the guts of Leviticus! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-05-011h 02Heretics Like UsHeretics Like UsNew Moms - Leviticus 12Is it the ultimate misogyny, to banish new moms for a while - twice as long if the baby is a girl? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-3006 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsEdible or Untouchable - Leviticus 11Were shifting into the language of clean and unclean - purity and pollution -  Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2913 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsKids Today - Leviticus 10A couple of the young priests handle 'alien fire' and are burnt up like sacrifices themselves - curse or blessing? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2808 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsNew Presiders - Leviticus 09The sacrificers have first to sacrifice - practice what they preach... Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2707 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsAnointed and Ordained - Leviticus 08The priesthood gets authorized, in another sacrificial form - legitimizing the agents Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-2610 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsIrregular Receipts - Leviticus 07Moving beyond the basic regular offerings to the occasional ones tied to specific intentions... Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-2513 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSacrifice and Consumption (1) - Leviticus 07-12Continue with the ritual practices of animal and grain offerings, with an orderly priesthood this week, expanding by the week-end into kasrut or 'kosher' kitchens beyond the altar. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2447 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsRegular Receipts - Leviticus 06More about the routine sacrifices, as we end this first week of 'Sacrifice and Consumption' -  Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2310 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsGiving 120% - Leviticus 05Putting a premium on what is owed for more intentional sins like frauds. Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2214 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsNegligence and Carelessness - Leviticus 04What if we didn't mean to do it?  Can we still make it right? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2116 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsFat and Blood - Leviticus 03Back to the messiness thrown on the burning altar, the fat and the blood, all around! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-2003 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsGrains - Leviticus 2Are cereal sacrifices really less strange to your consumer worldview? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-1909 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsMeat - Leviticus 1Here's a barbeque vision for you - can you see it and smell it, in your mental movie? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-1809 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSacrifice and Consumption (1)Starting right into the esoteric regulation of ritual sacrifices - strange in our consumer society! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-1747 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsTent Meetings - Exodus 40Easter Eve - the end of something - and the beginning - transformation -  Do you notice Moses excluded from the tent, replaced by Aaron and sons - and Moses 'outside the gates'? The people set out again, with pillars of cloud and fire are back -  Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-1608 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsGoing Away Outfits - Exodus 39'Have you worn the robes'? Try it on today - this 'ecclesiastical drag show' of vestments -  all dressed up, and somewhere to go! www.heresticslikeus.com2022-04-1509 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsTent Pegs - Exodus 38The making continues - the altar, wash basin, the outer court, and a whole inventory of materials used -  Think logistics and supply chain - and offer due reverence to tent pegs and diaper changes as essential services! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-1407 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSkilled Trades - Exodus 36One more time - the artisans get working, given plenty of raw material -  Thank God, 'for aesthetics is the mother of ethics' - the beautiful, not only the good and true Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-1209 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSunday Best - Exodus 35There's affirmation here of practical wisdom, skilled hands making beautiful things -  Too often drowned out by privileged academic and bureaucratic voices - can you hear a parochial word? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-1107 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSetting Out Again - Exodus 35-40Is this just a replay and elaboration of the last week before the Golden Calf?  Repetition and variation might reshape us this week: Sunday Best, Skilled Trades, Travel Kit, Tent Pegs, Tent Meetings -  Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-1043 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsConfirmed for Departure - Exodus 34Another 10 words, another 2 tablets - echoes and replays - with elaboration Then, it's time to return to the desert to wander - off with you from Sinai! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-0910 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsGolden Idols - Exodus 32While God dictates the plans for sacred objects, Aaron and the people make one of their own -  Smashed, wrecked - the people are forced to drink the gold they worshiped... Notes at www.heresticslikeus.com2022-04-0711 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsCrafts, SabbathsSkilled trades, arts and crafts, honoured in action and in sabbath rest -  Why don't people call their children Bezalel and Oholiab? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-0606 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsOlfactory Organs - Exodus 30If yesterday was too much blood and gore, taste and smell something else today -  Incense and perfumes, only associated with the holy space and time, to evoke and invoke presence Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-0510 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsProcessing Priests - Exodus 29Now we need a cast - invested over 7 days of bloody slashing splashing ritual -  A regular Stampede!  Notes at www.heresticslikeus.com2022-04-0413 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsCompleting Cycles - Exodus 29-34The stage set, curtains hung, costumes made - on with the show - can you see the parody - or the replay? By the end of the week, it will be time to leave Sinai behind, 'get up and go' again! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-0349 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsFashionistas - Exodus 28The stage is set, curtains are hung - turn to the costumes for the players: ephods, breastplate, turbans Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-04-0313 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsMood Lighting - Exodus 27Focus on the altar, burning sacrifices, and enter the holiest place, with oil lamps to light the closed space Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-04-0108 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsDesign Tips - Exodus 26We're going to need a lot of materials for the artisans, first - fabrics, woods, metals, semi-precious stones -  we're leaving the bronze age, entering the iron age - with aesthetics to match! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-03-3111 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsHope Chest - Exodus 25Change the channel to HGTV, and create a tent and furnish it, and dress up the clergy, starting today Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-03-3011 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsTravel Kit - Exodus 37Keep making: ARk, Table, Lamp-stand, Anointing Oil and Incense - Bezalel made as God made in Genesis 1 'Travel Kits' were the symbolic cultural artifacts carried by imperial colonial 'explorers' into our 'wilderness' - and ours? Notes from www.hereticslikeus.com2022-03-3006 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsTime to Go Again - Exodus 33'Get up and go', 'lech lecha', like Avram - but first, God moons Moses - just a glimpse of the backside, eh? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-03-3007 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsMarking a CovenantCulmination of the 'Book of the Covenant', reminded of the setting from 5 chapters back - Now, slaughtering bulls and flinging the 'blood of the covenant' about, not just on doorposts! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-03-2907 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsFair Dinkum- Exodus 23All those substantive rules, apodeictic or casuistic, don't work without procedural justice - and ritual gathering Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-03-2812 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like Us'Law & Order' to HGTVWe start the week by finishing the 'Book of the Covenant', procedural and ritual completion of the law -  Then we change channels to the furnishings of a tent, altar, and priestly garb -  Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-03-2744 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsGrudge Matches - Exodus 22Reasonable and faithful people may differ - how does my morality talk with your morality? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-03-2610 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsFair Dinkum - Exodus 21What's fair may depend on whose ox is gored, by whose ox - particularly for a repeat offender! Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com2022-03-2511 minHeretics Like UsHeretics Like UsSlavery in Egypt - Exodus 01-04The trouble with normal is it always gets worse (Bruce Cockburn) What began as accommodating migrants ends as genocide of their descendants - how can it be? Notes at www.hereticslikeus.com 2022-02-2728 min