EMISSIONS

“Such is the law for the person who has a discharge; for the man who has a seminal emission that makes him unclean; for the woman in niddah during her menstrual period; for the person, man or woman, with a discharge; for the man who has sexual relations with a woman who is unclean.”
Leviticus 15:32-33

I will be honest and note that this section is hard for me to respond to. According to the Torah, a seminal emission from a man makes him unclean. This I can probably understand. But then having sexual relations with a woman, even involving bathing, still leaves both unclean till evening. If Adonai’s command was to populate the earth, and that involves having children, and that involves having sexual relations to do so, then I am confused as to how the process Adonai ordained that to happen through is unclean.
A great deal of the passage that remains discusses a woman on her monthly cycle. This again is easier to understand in that a period is the releasing and filtering of the waste that has been stored up within the woman’s body. The monthly flow of blood produces the avenue of cleansing needed by her body to remove the waste, disease, and unclean attributes that have been stored up. Not touching this again makes plenty of sense. Why would one want to purposefully dirty themselves?
The only truth I can offer for this section comes as so. First, I do not know everything. I wish I understood this deeper and will continue to study this because I know it will make sense when I do. But secondly, I have to trust Adonai’s Word. As I have been reading the book of Leviticus, I have found many areas that I have not withheld His position on. Whether for lack of knowledge, lack of care, or our current society, the truth is I have not obeyed His commands. With that in mind, I know I must make changes. As with other things written with His Word, the excuse of I didn’t know, or I thought that was for back then only, won’t last. I am accountable to Adonai’s Word, and I must start living every piece of it.

15:16-33