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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
the answer is yes. In fact, I avoid such places as hospitals religiously, and one time a person almost dropped dead in the thrift shop near me and I felt terrible because my first thought was a prayer for their health, my second thought was a prayer for my dreads....
the ritual purity of Moses is a serious thing. Dead bodies are full of uncleanness, which is why Jesus said, ""Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it."
The deal with unmarked graves is that cemetaries make a person ritualistically unclean to enter the Temple or the Sanctuary. As the Nazirites were an essential element of the Hebrew Liturgical Choir, and as such needed to mainain ritual purity to be able to enter the Sanctuary often, they were required to keep themselves in this state of purity. Many are also celebates, as there are three things which render a person unclean for the Sanctuary:
1) Menstruation/Childbirth [for both men and women equally]
2) Sexual relations and the emission of semen
3) Dead Bodies
This is also why Jesus said, "You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean."
In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, we practice Levitical Ritual Purity as prescribed above, and do not enter the Church sanctuary under these conditions, but rather, pray outside within the gates, in what correlates to the Solomonic Temple's "Court of the Gentiles"...
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i thought that only jewish preists (cohanim) cant go to a cemetary. bt its been a while since i studied any kind of religioustext or whatnot.
im hoping this coming school year to take a course in the new testament.
btw, unfortunatly for everyone there are no more red heifers in the world. because then you could do anything you wanted and then get purified by their ashes. am i correct? it really has been a while since i studied all of this stuff....
and happy rasta day. i know thick girl who works at the local video store that really wants to go to ethiopia. so i was able to talk with her about it using all the useful info that you have posted here...