Editing Kidney (section)

====Hebrew====
According to studies in modern and ancient Hebrew, various body organs in humans and animals served also an emotional or logical role, today mostly attributed to the [[brain]] and the [[endocrine system]]. The kidney is mentioned in several biblical verses in conjunction with the heart, much as the [[bowels]] were understood to be the "seat" of emotion – grief, joy and pain.<ref name="adath">{{Cite web|url=http://www.adath-shalom.ca/body_metaphors_bib_hebrew.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030322082801/http://www.adath-shalom.ca/body_metaphors_bib_hebrew.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 22, 2003|title=Body Part Metaphors in Biblical Hebrew by David Steinberg|date=March 22, 2003|access-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref> Similarly, the [[Talmud]] (''Berakhoth'' 61.a) states that one of the two kidneys counsels what is good, and the other evil.

In the sacrifices offered at the biblical [[Tabernacle]] and later on at the temple in [[Jerusalem]], the priests were instructed<ref>Leviticus 3: 4, 10 and 15</ref> to remove the kidneys and the adrenal gland covering the kidneys of the sheep, goat and cattle offerings, and to burn them on the altar, as the holy part of the "offering for God" never to be eaten.<ref>ie Deut 3:4,9,10,15... or the Babylonian Talmud, Bechorot (39a) Ch6:Tr2...</ref>