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We ask the following database query:
Which procedures require a shaving of the entire body.
The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine.
This database query yields the list below.
The list justifies the following Rashi inference:
Shaving the entire body is symbolic of feminization. Female passivity -
the capacity to be a good listener has importance for two purposes:
a) to cure the lepor who slanders people. By acquiring female passivity
and listening the lepor will cure his urge to slander. b)to indoctrinate
the Levites who counsel people. It is well known that passive listening
is an important part of counseling.
The list below presents the results of the database query and shows examples
Procedure
| Biblical source
| Symbolic meaning
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Lepor(slanderer) purification ceremony
| Lv14-08:09
| To cure the urge to slander one must shave the entire body - adopt
female passivity - and be a good listener.
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Levite indoctrination ceremony
| Nu08-07b
| Levites counsel people who bring sacrifices to the
Temple. Female passivity - good listening - is a major
requirement for counselors.
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Acknowledgement: Although Rashi states the lepor-levite
connection it was Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch who founded the entire field of
Biblical symbolism on a deep elegant and logical axiomatic basis. We owe much to
Rav Hirsch who, culminating several 100 years of midieval symbolic commentary,
unlocked the doors to a biblical room filled with color, aroma and an etheral
beauty not expected in the bible.
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