TORAH - APRIL 2023

essential theme of each book:

BIOLOGY

• Bəreshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית, literally "In the beginning")—Genesis, from Γένεσις (Génesis, "Creation")

GEOMETRY

• Shəmot (שְׁמוֹת, literally "Names")—Exodus, from Ἔξοδος (Éxodos, "Exit")

VORTICES

• Vayikra (וַיִּקְרָא, literally "And He called")—Leviticus, from Λευιτικόν (Leuitikón, "Relating to the Levites")

• I. Laws on sacrifice (1:1–7:38)
• Catharsis - Thought and mind
  
  • A. Instructions for the laity on bringing offerings (1:1–6:7)
    • 1–5. The types of offering: burnt, cereal, peace, purification, reparation (or sin) offerings (chapters 1–5)
    • 1-5 The types of vortices: Internal decay, internal pain, equal cancelled, external love, external creation
  • B. Instructions for the priests (6:1–7:38)
    • 1–6. The various offerings, with the addition of the priests' cereal offering (6:1–7:36)
    • Repression - Painful thoughts
    • 7. Summary (7:37–38)
    • Internalised awareness
• II. Institution of the priesthood (8:1–10:20)
• Purification - Emotion and heart
  
  • A. Ordination of Aaron and his sons (chapter 8)
  • Positive cycling
  • B. Aaron makes the first sacrifices (chapter 9)
  • Negative cycling
  • C. Judgement on Nadab and Abihu (chapter 10)
  • Influencing cycle nature
• III. Uncleanliness and its treatment (11:1–15:33)
• Cleansing - Body and hand
  
  • A. Unclean animals (chapter 11)
  • Negativity from pain - Those who have been hurt
  • B. Childbirth as a source of uncleanliness (chapter 12)
  • Negativity from innocence - Those who know no better
  • C. Unclean diseases (chapter 13)
  • Negativity from impurities and physical blockages
  • D. Cleansing of diseases (chapter 14)
  • Passing impurities and blockages
  • E. Unclean discharges (chapter 15)
  • Purging repressed emotion and pain
• IV. Day of Atonement: purification of the tabernacle from the effects of uncleanliness and sin (chapter 16)
• Initiation - Catharsis, Purification and cleansing
• V. Prescriptions for practical holiness (the Holiness Code, chapters 17–26)
• Ascension - Outwards projection of self, for alignment and sync with outside physical bodies
  
  • A. Sacrifice and food (chapter 17)
  • Consumption: To take in
  • B. Sexual behaviour (chapter 18)
  • Connection: To put out
  • C. Neighbourliness (chapter 19)
  • Balance: To put together
  • D. Grave crimes (chapter 20)
  • Closed cycle
  • E. Rules for priests (chapter 21)
  • Return cycle
  • F. Rules for eating sacrifices (chapter 22)
  • Decay cycles
  • G. Festivals (chapter 23)
  • Creation cycles
  • H. Rules for the tabernacle (chapter 24:1–9)
  • Life cycles
  • I. Blasphemy (chapter 24:10–23)
  • Circle of life
  • J. Sabbatical and Jubilee years (chapter 25)
  • Solar and planetary cycle
  • K. Exhortation to obey the law: blessing and curse (chapter 26)
  • Procession of the equinoxes
• VI. Redemption of votive gifts (chapter 27)
• Cycle of the constellations

• Bəmidbar (בְּמִדְבַּר, literally "In the desert [of]")—Numbers, from Ἀριθμοί (Arithmoí, "Numbers")

PERMEABLE

• Dəvarim (דְּבָרִים, literally "Things" or "Words")—Deuteronomy, from Δευτερονόμιον (Deuteronómion, "Second-Law")