You may notice that all liquids, when mixed together, will blend into a single “concoction”. Except for oil, it does not intermix, it will always separate. It floats to the top, rises above.
From this week’s Torah Portion (Tetzaveh), Exodus 27:20 “Also you are to command Bnei-Yisrael , that they are to bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
Immediately after the various instructions about the building of the tabernacle and creating it’s furnishings, and vessels, and tools another mitzvah (commandment). A donation if you will, that the Children of Israel will have to keep themselves busy doing. Only oil from the first pressing from the olive was accepted as fuel for the menorah. It was only the first few drops that were “clear” (without sediment). Why select olive oil? Look how Israel is likened to the olive tree.
HaShem called your name— a leafy olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit.. Jeremiah 11:16
Let’s visit again the word pure in the Hebrew. It is always good to have a better understanding, after all, it is The Word of The Holy One! The primitive root is zakah, זכה, meaning blameless, to be clear, clean, pure, cleansed. Pretty much, the true nature of Holiness. The word olive originates from the word kathath ,כתב , pronounced ‘kaw-thath’, meaning crushed, to beat, crush by beating, defeated. The oil, שמן, shemen , meaning fat, oil, choice, fatness, fertile, and ointment. Then you have the word beaten, zayith, זית, meaning olive tree.
Consider the blameless, Genesis 17:1 says When Abraham was 99 years old, HaShem told him to “continually walk before Me and you will be blameless”. Noah was a righteous man, according to Genesis 6:9, He was blameless among his generation, he walked continually with HaShem. Job was a man that was blameless and upright, he feared HaShem and shunned evil (Job 1:1). Satan tried his best, with permission from HaShem, to destroy Job’s righteousness, but like pure oil, he rose to the top.
Yeshua spoke, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see G-d” (Matthew 5:8). Titus 1:15 says, “ To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Both their mind and conscience are defiled.” How is The Holy One to be in a relationship with someone who isn’t pure? It’s simple, He can’t.
The innermost essence of who you are is pure. It is only the Evil Inclination, the yaitzer hara, which prevents one from serving HaShem. Submitting to Our Maker, Our Husband, the Bridegroom-King, means in this relationship we must purify ourselves. We must let Him make ourselves clean by immersion in the Word, the Torah! Messiah gave His life (“not having stain or wrinkle or any such thing”) So That His Bride might be Holy! So that His People be set apart, like the oil! Always rising to the top.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What harmony does Messiah have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement does G-d’s Temple have with idols? For we are the temple of the living G-d —just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from among them, and be separate, says Adonai . Touch no unclean thing. Then I will take you in. I will be a father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says Adonai -Tzva’ot .” Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of G-d. 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1
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