St Thomas interprets ' You should love your neighbour as yourself ' from Leviticus 19 and Matthew 22 as meaning that love for ourselves is the exemplar of love for others.

Originally based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

But he argues that one can understand the Hebrew conception of love only by looking at one of the core commandments of Judaism, Leviticus 19: 18, " Love your neighbor as yourself ", also called the second Great Commandment.

Bernard Bamberger considers Leviticus 19, beginning with God's commandment in verse 3 —" You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God, am holy "— to be " the climactic chapter of the book, the one most often read and quoted " ( 1981: 889 ).

Leviticus 19: 18 is itself the climax of this chapter.

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals, such as isolating infected people ( Leviticus 13: 45-46 ), washing after handling a dead body ( Numbers 19: 11-19 ) and burying excrement away from camp ( Deuteronomy 23: 12-13 ).

* Fruit during the first three years ( orlah ): according to Leviticus 19: 23, fruit from a tree in the first three years after planting cannot be consumed ( both in the Land of Israel and the diaspora )

The commandment to love other people is given in the Torah, which states, " Love your neighbor like yourself " ( Leviticus 19: 18 ).

:* Kedoshim, on Leviticus 19 – 20: Holiness, penalties for transgressions

Moreover, the Torah already provided some ways for all Jews to lead a priestly life: the precepts concerning unclean meat were perhaps intended originally for the priests, but were extended to the whole people ( Leviticus 11 ; Deuteronomy 14: 3 – 21 ); the prohibition of cutting the flesh in mourning for the dead ( Deuteronomy 14: 1 – 2, Leviticus 19: 28 ; comp.

The Bible states in Leviticus 19: 27 that " You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.

" ( Leviticus 19: 27 ) St. Cyprian, 5. 553

Leviticus makes similar statements about menstruation ( 15: 19 – 24 ) and childbirth ( Leviticus 12 ).

In this way, we have Jewish names like Asmodai ( Book of Tobit ), Azazel ( Leviticus 16: 8-10 ), or Belial ( Deuteronomy 13: 13, Book of Judges 19: 22, Books of Samuel, part 1, 1: 16, 2: 12 10: 27 and 25: 17, and part 2 16: 7 and 22: 5, Books of Kings part 1, 21: 10-13, Books of Chronicles, part 1, 13: 7 ); Semitic deities like Adramelech, Baal ( see Baal ( demon ), Baal was also a general Jewish name for a false god ), Ashtaroth ( derived from Astarte ); Greek, Roman and Egyptian names like Bifrons ( See Bifrons ( demon )), Lamia, Phoenix ( see Phenex ); and so on.

( For example, Leviticus 19: 36 ; Deuteronomy 25: 1 ; Psalm 1: 6 ; Proverbs 8: 20 ).

"( Leviticus 19: 18 — NJPS )

Ephesians 5: 31-33 ; 6: 1-4 ; Hebrews 13: 4 ; Matthew 19: 5 ; Leviticus 18: 22 ; Genesis 2: 24.

The Torah contains a general injunction against rekhilut ( gossip ): " Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people ; neither shalt thou stand idly by the blood of thy neighbour: I am the " ( Leviticus 19: 16 ).

# Pe ' ah ( פאה, Corner ) deals with the regulations concerning the commandment to leave the corner of one's field for the poor ( Leviticus 19: 9 – 10, 23: 22 ; Deuteronomy 24: 19 – 22 ), and with the rights of the poor in general.

# Kil ' ayim ( כלאים, Of Two Sorts ; Heterogeneous ) deals chiefly with rules regarding forbidden mixtures in agriculture, clothing and breeding ( Leviticus 19: 19 ; Deuteronomy 22: 9 – 11 ).

See also Old Testament Law directed at non-Jews and Leviticus 18.

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you shall not do " ( Leviticus 18: 3 ).

:* Acharei Mot, on Leviticus 16 – 18: Yom Kippur, centralized offerings, sexual practices

The betrothal immediately raised questions related to the biblical prohibition ( in Leviticus 18 and 20 ) against marriage to a brother ’ s wife.

* Incest: Men are forbidden to have sex with relatives, including their mother, father's wife, sister, daughter of father's wife if born to the father, father's sister, mother's sister, father's brother's wife, son's wife, or brother's wife ( Leviticus 18: 6 – 16 )

* Relatives of a woman: A man is forbidden to have sex with the daughter of a woman he has had sex with, or with her son's daughter or daughter's daughter ( Leviticus 18: 17 )

* Wife's sister: A man is forbidden to take his wife's sister as a second wife while she is still living ( Leviticus 18: 18 )

* Menstruating women: Forbidden ( Leviticus 18 )

* Male homosexuality: Sex with a man " as with a woman " forbidden, punishable by death for both participating men ( Leviticus 18: 22 and Leviticus 20: 13 )

* Bestiality: Forbidden for both men and women ( Leviticus 18: 23 )

In Leviticus 18: 21, 20: 3 and Deuteronomy 12: 30-31, 18: 10, the Torah contains a number of imprecations against and laws forbidding child sacrifice.

The Book of Deuteronomy ( 18: 9 – 12 ) explicitly warns the Israelites against engaging in the Canaanite practice of divination from the dead: Though Mosaic Law prescribed the death penalty to practitioners of necromancy ( Leviticus 20: 27 ), this warning was not always heeded.

Thus ( Leviticus 8: 23 ) is the middle verse in the Pentateuch ; all the names of Divinity mentioned in connection with Abraham are holy except ( Genesis 18: 3 ); ten passages in the Pentateuch are dotted ; three times the Pentateuch has the spelling לא where the reading is לו.

Leviticus 20: 2 and Deuteronomy 18: 10 specifically outlaw the giving of children to Moloch, making it punishable by stoning ; the Tanakh subsequently denounces human sacrifice as barbaric customs of Baal worshippers ( e. g. Psalms 106: 37ff ).

Moloch figures in the Book of Deuteronomy and in the Book of Leviticus as a form of idolatry ( Leviticus 18: 21: " And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch ").

A man who had normal intercourse with his wife was also considered ceremonially unclean, and he too was required to bathe in a mikveh and he became pure after the sun had set ( Leviticus 15: 18 ).

Historically, Jews have considered it of central importance: traditionally, children began their study of the Torah with Leviticus, and the midrashic literature on Leviticus is among the longest and most detailed of midrashic literature ( see Bamberger 1981: 737 ).

Tradition credits Moses as the author of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and most of Deuteronomy, but modern scholars increasingly see it as a product of the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

This is followed by rules of clean and unclean ( Leviticus 11 – 15 ), which includes the laws of slaughter and animals permissible to eat ( see also: Kashrut ), the Day of Atonement ( Leviticus 16 ), and various moral and ritual laws sometimes called the Holiness Code ( Leviticus 17 – 26 ).

In the Hebrew Bible the laws ( see mitzvah ) concerning the redemption of the first-born male are referred to in Exodus, Numbers and Leviticus:

A third passage relates more specifically to priests, requiring " a man who has had an emission of semen ," among other causes of ritual defilement, to abstain from eating holy until after a ritual immersion in a mikveh ( see paragraph below ) and a subsequent night-fall ( Leviticus 22: 4 ).

Famously, in his commentary to Leviticus 18: 4-5 ( see also Rashi ad loc.

Many of its teachings are no longer in practice in the mainstream Christian denominations, however see Leviticus 18 and Biblical law in Christianity for details.

On the other hand some modern scholars reject the connection to Noahide Law () and instead see ( see also Leviticus 18 ) as the basis.

Adoration may be seen as the abrogation of the command to adore God alone, as commanded in Leviticus, but see Biblical law in Christianity.

This cultural condemnation lent itself to a combination with the Judaic prohibitions found in Leviticus 18: 22 ( see also Leviticus 18 ) and 20: 13, with the latter commanding: " And if a man also lies with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination ; they shall surely be put to death ; their blood shall be upon them.

The mother of the boy who disappeared, Lynda Tillman, goes to see Dr. Leviticus Mitchell, a physicist, skeptic and debunker of the supernatural.

self affliction ) on Yom Kippur ( Jewish holiday of atonement ) ( see Leviticus, 23: 27, 29, 32 ; Numbers, 29: 7 ; Tractate Yoma, 8: 1 ; ibid.

Because, according to the Hebrew Bible, hardship and calamitous circumstances can occur as a result of wrongdoing ( see, for example, Leviticus, 26: 14-41 ), fasting is often undertaken by the community or by individuals to achieve atonement and avert catastrophe ( see, for example, Esther, 4: 3, 16 ; Jonah, 3: 7 ).

Burghers of Dutch origin sometimes celebrate the Feast of Saint Nicholas in December, and those of Portuguese-Jewish origin observe customs such as the separation time of a woman after childbirth ( see Leviticus 12: 2-5 ), the redemption of the Firstborn ( Pidyon ha-Ben ), and the purification bath ( taharah ) after a daughter ’ s first period ( see niddah ).

Their religious observances include a literal reading of the 11th chapter of Leviticus ( see Kashrut ).