Suggested readings for Parashah Tzav from the B’rit Hadashah

B’rit Hadashah: Mattityahu (Mat) 9:10-17

Chapter 9:10-17

10 'While Yeshua was in the house eating, many tax-collectors and sinners came and
joined him and his talmidim at the meal. 11 When the P’rushim saw this, they said to his
talmidim , “Why does your rabbi eat with tax-collectors and sinners?” 12 But Yeshua
heard the question and answered, “The ones who need a doctor aren’t the healthy but
the sick. 13 As for you, go and learn what this means: ‘I want compassion rather than
animal-sacrifices.’ For I didn’t come to call the ‘righteous,’ but sinners!”

14 Next, Yochanan’s talmidim came to him and asked, “Why is it that we and the
P’rushim fast frequently, but your talmidim don’t fast at all?” 15 Yeshua said to them,
“Can wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will
come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; then they will fast. 16 No one
patches an old coat with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch tears away from
the coat and leaves a worse hole. 17 Nor do people put new wine in old wineskins; if they
do, the skins burst, the wine spills and the wineskins are ruined. No, they pour new wine
into freshly prepared wineskins, and in this way both are preserved.”'

B’rit Hadashah: Mattityahu (Mat)

Chapter 17:9-13

9 'As they came down the mountain, Yeshua ordered them, “Don’t tell anyone what
you have seen until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.” 10 The talmidim
asked him, “Then why do the Torah -teachers say that Eliyahu must come first?” 11 He
answered, “On the one hand, Eliyahu is coming and will restore all things; 12 on the
other hand, I tell you that Eliyahu has come already, and people did not recognize him
but did whatever they pleased to him. In the same way, the Son of Man too is about to
suffer at their hands.” 13 Then the talmidim understood that he was talking to them
about Yochanan the Immerser.'
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B’rit Hadashah: Mark (Mrk)

Chapter 12:28-34

28 'One of the Torah -teachers came up and heard them engaged in this discussion.
Seeing that Yeshua answered them well, he asked him, “Which is the most important
mitzvah of them all?” 29 Yeshua answered, “The most important is,

‘ Sh’ma Yisra’el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the
Lord is one], 30 and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your
soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.’

31 The second is this:

‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’

There is no other mitzvah greater than these.” 32 The Torah -teacher said to him,
“Well said, Rabbi; you speak the truth when you say that he is one, and that there is no
other besides him; 33 and that loving him with all one’s heart, understanding and
strength, and loving one’s neighbor as oneself, mean more than all the burnt offerings
and sacrifices.” 34 When Yeshua saw that he responded sensibly, he said to him, “You
are not far from the Kingdom of God.” And after that, no one dared put to him another
sh’eilah .'

B’rit Hadashah: Romans (Rom)

Chapter 12:1-2

1 'I exhort you, therefore, brothers, in view of God’s mercies, to offer yourselves as a
sacrifice, living and set apart for God. This will please him; it is the logical “Temple
worship” for you. 2 In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards
of the ‘olam hazeh . Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of
your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is
good, satisfying and able to succeed. '
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B’rit Hadashah: 1 Corinthians (1 Co)

Chapter 10:14-23

14 'Therefore, my dear friends, run from idolatry! 15 I speak to you as sensible

people; judge for yourselves what I am saying. 16 The “cup of blessing” over which we
make the b’rakhah — isn’t it a sharing in the bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah? The
bread we break, isn’t it a sharing in the body of the Messiah? 17 Because there is one
loaf of bread, we who are many constitute one body, since we all partake of the one loaf
of bread. 18 Look at physical Isra’el: don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the
altar? 19 So, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols has any significance in itself?
or that an idol has significance in itself? 20 No, what I am saying is that the things which
pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice not to God but to demons; and I don’t want you to
become sharers of the demons! 21 You can’t drink both a cup of the Lord and a cup of
demons, you can’t partake in both a meal of the Lord and a meal of demons. 22 Or are
we trying to make the Lord jealous? We aren’t stronger than he is, are we?

23 “Everything is permitted,” you say? Maybe, but not everything is helpful.

“Everything is permitted?” Maybe, but not everything is edifying. '