Chevre, this week’s parsha is Emor (אֱמֹר). The largest section of our parsha goes over the holidays including Pesach (Passover), The Omer (which we are counting now between Pesach and Shavuot), Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. The Menorah and Show Bread are discussed again. The part, however, that really stood out to me this week is a small section that if a Cohen (Priest) is tameh (not ritually clean), they must go through the purification process before they can enter The Temple to perform the service. Actually, anyone entering certain areas of The Temple must go through the purification process, but we might have thought that a Cohen was an exception. Here, we see that there is no exception.
If we say that ritual impurity is like having a computer intrusion, virus, whatever. Then this makes sense. Whoever wants to connect (go into) the holy area of the cloud workload, must ensure they are clean (here we are saying security clean). They need to ensure their computer is regularly scanned, has anti-virus, authenticates themselves and possibly only connects with authorized methods which limit the opportunity for the “impurity” (intrusion) from accessing the holy site (the internal workload). And just like The Temple, which has walled and guarded areas as you get closer to The Holy of Holies, as you access deeper into the internals of a workload, you would have more and more security and less and less access. The goal in the cloud is to keep out the “bad guys” and limit access. The goal in The Temple is to ensure the holiness of the site so that the Avoda (or the Temple work) would be properly accepted.
Please pray with me for the speedy recovery of our holy soldiers protecting Am Yisrael including Avichai Binyamin HaCohen ben Yaffa Shira. Shabbat Shalom