Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and I saw a video the

other day of a little baby raccoon that goes down by the water and it's like oh I found

some food in a trash can and I'm just gonna wash it up and then eat it except the food

jokes on him.

It's cotton candy and so he takes the cotton candy and it dips it down and there of course

it's a cotton candy just vanishes because of the physical nature of cotton candy and

the raccoon is like what is happening my entire world is just turned upside down like

if you saw an alien or something that's how the raccoon looks and my little buddy my

son he loves the raccoons and that makes him super happy and that video made us super

happy because when he was little we'd always bad you're about washing up for dinner and

stuff like the raccoons do it and you like the raccoons you gotta be like the raccoon

and you wash up his hands and all of these things just make my heart soft and squishy

but but I bring them up because they do have to do with what we're talking about today

which is quite literally hand washing which in our family was a thing that was just a

matter of you not being gross and disgusting because you're a kid and you go outside and

you play and you get gross and disgusting and then obviously we don't want you to get

whatever diseases you touched outside by you know eating in your food so we have you

wash up it's common sense right well in some cultures and particularly in Jewish culture

at the turn of the century in the time of Christ it was not such an adorable little

pre meal ritual the people who took very seriously the teachings of the Pharisees viewed

a ritual washing before any kind of meal as part of one's expression of religious devotion

to God and even an extension of the rules on religious purity and ceremonial cleanliness

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