Leaven
Leaven
We see in Exodus 12 that the memorial[1] of the Passover would require that the bread eaten would have to be unleavened bread. The word for "unleavened bread or cake" is matstsah[2] MemZtadikHey but the word in verse 15 is maṣṣōwṯ (מַצּ֣וֹת) MemZtadikVavTav. In fact the casual reading of the text by verse 19 there are those that believe that anyone who "eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel"
Most commentaries are explaining that leaven was regarded as produced by corruption as is suggested in Exodus 23:18. But have the people unmoored the meaning of the ritual making the practices of leaven and unleavend bread into a form of idolatry by worshiping the symbols of corruption.
"Paul twice quotes the saying, ‘A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump’ (1 Corinthians 5:6, Galatians 5:9), with reference to moral corruption: and in 1 Corinthians 5:7-8, with evident reference to the injunction here, bids Christians ‘clear away the old leaven,’ and ‘keep the feast’ of their Passover, Christ (i.e. live the Christian life), with the ‘unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.’"[3]
Jesus used the term leaven[4] several times in reference to the The leaven of the Pharisees.
It is clearly another of those metaphors built into the Hebrew language and thinking.
Leaven by its nature is something that even in small a quantity, may influence everything. It could be used as a good influence or in a good sense[5] or a pernicious influence as in a bad sense we see with the leaven of the Pharisees.[6]
Pharisees were clearly creating new doctrines through false interpretations and their Sophistry.
The man made doctrine which strained at knats swallowed a camel of lies because vanity caused them to hate the "light" and love the darkness.
Their pride in their doctrines allowed and even required them to emphasis rituals and form, words, and phrases but failed to attend to the weightier matters.
They often did this by denying alternative uses of words or by altering their meaning through Sophistry.
That is hard for many to understand because they read the text of the Bible in the shadow of the tree of knowledge. This may be better understood if we look at the origin of the word from which we get the term leaven.
Double Tzadik
There are numerous double letters that are arranged in the Hebrew text and this is said to include the double Tzadik which would appear as matsats[7] in the Bible as the root word of a very common word that represents something we can physically have in our house, our hand and our food but actually also represents a moral idea or concept that is intrinsically related to covetous practices and corruption.
Isaiah 66:11 "That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out <04711>, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory."
It should also be noted that in the actual text where this Hebrew word matsats[7] is said to appear it is not written with its double Tzadik but as tāmōṣṣū or TavMemTzadikVav (תָּמֹ֛צּוּ).
The letter צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
If double letters are often a reference to the spirit and truth dynamic of a cause and effect universe where the spiritual and physical realms echo evidence of the singularity of creation and the God of creation then what does a double Tzadik indicate?
A key to understanding the dynamics of the double Tzadik is to know that the word matsats which appears only this once in the Bible is also the root word for the term leaven or matstsah[2].
We may ask why but again Hebrew is composed of letters that have meanings and if we alter the letters we may be altering the use of the word and its meaning. It may require a different way of thinking about language as something not merely composed of symbols and their meanings but with a more spiritual dynamic.
Is it clearly understood in the teachings of Moses that yeast in the bread at Passover is only part of a rituals and ceremonies which is meant to warn us about the spirit the leaven symbolizes in that root word matsats[7] which is written by letters in the text representing a source of spiritual corruption "in the sense of greedily devouring (the) sweetness" of something.
We need to be finding out if there is spiritual corruption found in our our practices of our daily ministration that is sucking out the sweetness of our soul and the soul of society?
Those who unmoor meaning from their forms of rituals and ceremonies strangle the spirit that gives life and fall into a prison where the letter killeth.[8] But those who read the text with the light of the Holy Spirit, instead of in the shadows of the tree of knowledge, may be guided through the currents and eddies of language of definitions and dogma. It may also be significant to note that the verb preceding it which is anog[9] AyinNunGimel (עָנַג) but what we see in the text is wəhiṯ‘annaḡtem VavHeyTavAyinNunGimelTavMem (וְהִתְעַנַּגְתֶּ֖ם).
These two words have numerous additional letters including the appearance of three Tavs. Moses only uses the word anog[9] once and not in a good sense.[10] but in Isaiah 66:11 the term is surrounded by the letter of faith which flows in in a process of sacrifice.
These that are blessed in these verses 10 through 14 stand in contrast to those earlier in verses 3 and 4,[11]
Do these same principles apply to the rituals and ceremonies of circumcision of the flesh and circumcision of the heart?
No new doctrine of God
There is no new doctrine of God for God, the will of God and Right Reason are the same today as it was yesterday.
The creation of new doctrines with often fictional and private interpretations by the pharisees was part of what Jesus meant when he referred to the need to "Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees[6] which through their Corban would make the word of God to none effect.
What is the leaven and corban of your house?
Listen to the Leaven of blood.
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See Exodus 12
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Footnotes
- ↑ 02146 ^ןורכז^ zikrown ZayinKafReishVavNun \@zik-rone’\@ from 02142 ZayinKafReish; n m; {See TWOT on 551 @@ "551b"} AV-memorial 17, remembrance 6, records 1; 24
- 1) memorial, reminder, remembrance
- זָ ז Zayin The "Crowned" head. The Service and Valor, cut and bread, war and nourish. [weapon.... Cut, to cut off, manacle] (Numeric value: 7)
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 04682 מַצָּה matstsah [mats-tsaw’] MemTzadikHey from 04711 מָצַץ matsats MemTzadikTzadik with a Double Tzadik meaning "to drain out, suck" in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness; n f; [BDB-595a] [{See TWOT on 1232 }] AV-unleavened bread 33, unleavened 14, cakes 5, without leaven 1; 53
- 1) unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- ↑ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
- ↑ 2219 ζύμη zume [dzoo’-may] probably from 2204 zeo fervent in anger or spirit; n f; TDNT-2:902,302; [{See TDNT 288 }] AV-leaven 13; 13
- 1) leaven
- 2) metaph. of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendency to infect others
- Leaven is applied to that which, though small in quantity, yet by its influence thoroughly pervades a thing; either in a good sense as in the parable #Mt 13:33; or in a bad sense, of a pernicious influence, "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump"
- 5160 trophe, food; 1035 brosis, food; 106 azumos, unleavened bread, metaphor "free from faults or the "leaven of iniquity"".
- ↑ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." ([Matthew 13]:33)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (Matthew 16:6)
- "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? (Matthew 16:11)
- "Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (Matthew 16:12)
- "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. (Mark 8:15)
- "In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 04711 מָצַץ matsats [maw-tsats’] a primitive root with a double Tzadik; v; [BDB-595a] [{See TWOT on 1234 }] AV-milk out 1; 1
- 1) (Qal) to drain out, suck
- This is the root word for the term Leaven.
- ↑ 2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 06026 עָנַג ‘anag [aw-nag’] AyinNunGimel a primitive root; v; [BDB-772a] [{See TWOT on 1648 }] AV-delight 7, delicate 1, delicateness 1, sport 1; 10
- 1) to be soft, be delicate, be dainty
- 1a) (Pual) to be delicate
- 1b) (Hithpael)
- 1b1) to be of dainty habit, be pampered
- 1b2) to be happy about, take exquisite delight
- 1b3) to make merry over, make sport of
- 1) to be soft, be delicate, be dainty
- ↑ Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness <06026> and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
- ↑ Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox [is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose [that] in which I delighted not.