Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

Being raised for forty years in Egypt, Moses would have known these cures, yet none of these ridiculous remedies are found in the Torah. Instead, God the Creator gave several unique sanitation codes that prevented the passage of germs and disease. One notable feature is that God believed in washing! God instructed the priests to wash their hands and feet before ministering and slaying the sacrifices (Exod. 30:18–21). The innards and inside legs of the sacrifices were to be washed (Lev. 1:9–13). A person touching a dead carcass was to wash his or her clothes and body (Lev. 11:24–28). After touching a scab, a running sore, a possible leper, or anyone with a skin disease or infection, the person making contact with the afflicted individual must wash both himself and his clothes in water—and in some cases, running water (Lev. 15:13). Unknown in ancient medical circles, certain diseases, infections, and germs could be passed from person to person through physical contact. God commanded water to be used to cleanse and purify a person. The importance of washing was understood in the early twentieth century at the Vienna Medical Center Hospital, when doctors noticed one in six women was dying in childbirth from infections. Previously, doctors had washed their hands in a basin of water. Later it was discovered this was a source of passing infection to the other women. Today, doctors scrub their hands in an alcohol based soap or hand scrub, washing them in warm running water, thus helping to prevent the passing of infections to their patients. This simple procedure was revealed to Moses thirty five hundred years ago.14