🔥 Chamishi 10, 6027 AA 🔥 – Acceptable Offerings: Age, Salt, and Integrity

Torah Foundation:

“You shall season every grain offering with salt... For you shall not let the salt of the covenant of your Elohim be lacking... No grain offering that you bring to YHVH shall be made with leaven or with honey.” — Vayikra (Leviticus) 2:11,13 (condensed)

📜 The Fine Print of the Altar

YHVH is not vague about what He finds acceptable. Offerings were to meet specific requirements: the animal had to be of a certain age (often one year), it had to be without blemish, and it had to be your own property — not stolen or taken unjustly. No yeast or honey could be added, but salt was a must.

Why such detail? Because holy offerings reflect a holy King. Salt preserves. Leaven corrupts. Honey ferments. And shortcuts defile. The altar is no place for compromise.

⚖️ Integrity Behind the Offering

It wasn’t enough to bring an animal — it had to be your animal, raised or acquired properly. Bringing stolen or unlawful offerings was an abomination. Today, this principle still holds: worship done from borrowed conviction or impure motives is not pleasing. YHVH wants what costs us something. He sees whether we obtained it righteously.

And the salt? It's a covenant symbol — a sign of permanence and loyalty. We don’t offer up sweetened religion. We offer truth, grit, and permanence. No sugar-coating. No shortcuts.

🔥 Fire Starter Prayer:

Abba YHVH, teach me to bring offerings that reflect Your holiness. May my praise be salted with purity and truth. Let me never offer You what costs me nothing or what I did not rightfully obtain. Remove leaven from my life — pride, corruption, compromise — and let all I bring to You be pleasing in Your eyes. Baruk YHVH.

📚 RESOURCES

1. Learn more about these Mitzvot: - Chabad.org Mitzvot Index

🛡️ Reminders

• 💥 Have your offerings been lawful, pure, and seasoned? Or are you bringing YHVH what’s easy and blemished?
• ⚠️ REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR ARMOR DAILY!