Emor Torah Portion For Kids

Watch this week's Torah Portion Emor
Leviticus 21:1-24:23
Teaching taken from YMTOI Ministries: Parasha Pearls for children aged 5-8 years
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[@kaelansoto416]

Thank you for these amazing teachings. Blessings and shalom.

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Shabbat Shalom. Resting in His Word.

[@Steve-p6s6z]

Shabbat shalom. We enjoy your teachings, they are great for the children, but we note, Torah tells us that any animal that walks on four paws is unclean to us, and that includes cats, dogs, bears etc etc. The only clean animals we have are goats, sheep and what ever else He says is clean for us, no matter how cute they may seem, they are still unclean according to Aveenu Malkaynu. Blessings from NZ

[@teachtorahtokids1264]

Hi, and thank you for your comment.
The Torah does indeed tell us that animals on four paws are unclean to us.
Specifically in Leviticus we read:
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth:
‘Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud-that you may eat.
‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;
‘the rock hyrax, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;
‘the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;
‘and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
‘Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you. Leviticus 11
So we can determine from the above text what is suitable for food and what is not
and then we read:
The carcass of any animal which divides the foot, but is not cloven-hoofed or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches it shall be unclean.
‘And whatever goes on its paws, among all kinds of animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches any such carcass shall be unclean until evening. Leviticus 11
Here we are told which DEAD animals will cause us to become unclean if we touch them
There is no suggestion we cannot touch an animal from this list whilst it is alive. Indeed, we read of Avraham using camels (listed above as unclean)
See Genesis 24
Shalom.

[@Steve-p6s6z]

@@teachtorahtokids1264 Yes that is how i read the Hebrew, so we know what is clean and what is not, but using them for work is not the same as having these animals in our houses, when they are unclean, i /we think it is very clear, we are not suppose to have these animals as domesticated animals, they are unclean, so having them in our houses makes everything in our houses, including us, unclean.
I think we need to read it in context, and not from a western mindset, it is Hebraic, and anything from a Roman Greco perspective is wrong.
Blessings