Aaron’s Sacrifice

Lev 9:7-20     7/28/2017

All of the children of Israel are assembled. They are observing as Aaron performs the sacrifice on their behalf. A strange moment of solidarity and anticipation.

Moses had said that God would somehow reveal himself more deeply. No longer on the mountaintop, but right here in the camp. The close proximity to such extraordinary power was awesome – the cause for reverence but also joyful celebration.

It’s hard imagining this moment. I sacrifice in the same way I go to Taco Bell – in deliberate ignorance that a life was taken so that my life can go on. No getting my hands dirty. Meat, in our time, is a commodity detached from the life that produced it.

Flesh to eat. This last thread that ties me to reality.

“Take and eat; this is my body.”