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Clean and unclean

What is the difference between clean, not clean, and unclean? How did Noah know?

Preface: This answer is based in the practice of discerning sensus plenior which follows rules to eliminate free-for-all allegory. How to interpret scripture using the rules of Sensus Plenior

The rabbis teach that Hebrew words get their meaning from the combined meaning of the letters within. Though they cannot teach how to do it, here is a proposed solution (needing validation) which appears to work Pneumnemonic Hebrew

To avoid the discussion of the source of Genesis we accept the Wiseman hypothesis, allowing us to examine it as the word or God. Wiseman Hypothesis

Using Adam as a well-known example of the formation of Hebrew words, we will extend it to the sensus plenior extreme before using the method in our answer.

Adam אדם came from the ground, 'adamah' אדמה . The earth is a metaphor for the flesh. By this we discern that the flesh does not understand, and infer that it refers to the instinctive nature. By dropping the ה to form Adam, it indicates that Adam did understand. This is confirmed in scripture. The woman was deceived, the man wasn't.

Adam is made up of blood 'dam' דם and spirit א. The meaning of the aleph is confirmed in John's parsing of 'earth' ארץ into spirit א water ר and blood ץ.

The blood is formed by the commandment ד completed by the son ם .

Now to the question.

Adam named the animals according to their reputation. 'Shem' means 'name' and 'reputation'. He watched the animals and gave them names based on their behavior. For a list of animals in the dietary law and the meaning of their names using the method above see: Dietary law

Noah had the names of the animals available to him, and is is reasonable to presume that his father or grandfather had direct knowledge from Adam as to why they were named that way.

From the behavior and the names, Noah knew something about the metaphoric nature of language.

Clean ה(טהור)ה the secret ה()ה pure טהור

Pure ט-ה-ו-ר teaching ט those who don't understand ה to discern ו revelation ר

Not clean לא clean - teaching ל something different א than clean

unclean

טמ-א contracting טמ holiness א, closing טמ holiness א

ט-מא teaching ט the hundred (church) מא

ט(מ)א marriage which causes sin טא with the promise of the father מ at it's center **

ט-מ-א teaching ט of the promise of the father מ causes separation/reconciliation

Discerning sensus plenior is not 'translating' per se. Sensus plenior exists in metaphor which can be expressed in multiple ways. Where the expressions of a single metaphor appear to deviate in meaning it is important to go back to the fuller description of the metaphor.

With eating as a metaphor for learning, the dietary law becomes a list of people we should and shouldn't learn from. It is similar to the modern song Swinging on a Star

Clean and unclean were as obvious to Noah as Bing's song is to children.

• • When Christ took his bride he exchanged his righteousness for her sin. The marriage made him 'unclean' his resurrection made him clean (white) again.

Ge 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.

clean

הטהורה

ה(טהור)ה the secret ה()ה pure טהור

not clean

לא טהרה

unclean

unclean, defile טמא