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15:11-Who is like You, O LORD, among the celestials; Who is like You, majestic “bakodesh<\/em>” in holiness, Awesome in splendor, working wonders!<\/span><\/p>\n

13 – In Your love You lead the people You redeemed; In Your strength You guide them to “neveh kodshecha<\/em>” Your holy abode\u2026.<\/span>
\n<\/span>17 – You will bring them and plant them in Your own mountain, The place You made to dwell in, O LORD, “mikdash<\/em>” The sanctuary, O LORD, which Your hands established.<\/span><\/p>\n

The root \u05e7-\u05d3-\u05e9 <\/span>k-d-sh<\/span><\/em> appears three times in this chapter – once referring to God, and twice (seemingly anachronistically) to a place, a temple. But this root is one of the most central ones in the Jewish tradition – it connects to wine, women (and men), and prayer; and also to funerals, martyrdom and the moon – so let\u2019s take a brief tour through its main expressions. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Tanakh, the source of all that is holy is God. A common name of God is \u05d4\u05e7\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u05da \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0, <\/span>hakadosh baruch hu<\/span><\/em>\u2013 literally, “the Holy One, blessed be He.” Or in a less gendered translation, “The Holy Blessed One” (but Hebrew does not have the luxury \u2013 yet \u2013 of going without gendered pronouns).<\/span><\/p>\n

In turn, many things associated with divinity, such as the \u05d1\u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05e7\u05d3\u05e9 <\/span>Beit Ha-Mikdash<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>“the Temple,” \u00a0(literally, closer to “the Home of Sanctification”) use one form or another of this root.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Torah scrolls are housed in the \u05d0\u05e8\u05d5\u05df \u05d4\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9, <\/span>aron ha-kodesh<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> “the ark of holiness.” And, not to be outdone, the inner sanctum of the Temple was the ne plus ultra, \u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd <\/span>kodesh hakodashim<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>“the holy of holies.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Temples were built in Jerusalem, known as \u05e2\u05d9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9 <\/span>ir hakodesh<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> “the holy city.” Similarly, the official Arabic name of the city is al-Kuds (sometimes spelled al-Quds), same meaning from the cognate Arabic root.<\/span><\/p>\n

The root \u05e7-\u05d3-\u05e9 <\/span>k-d-sh<\/span><\/em> though is found even more in verbs than in nouns, since the idea of a commandment, is a religious act which sanctifies the doer, or the very time in which it is done. For instance, the blessing said over the wine on the Shabbat is called the \u05e7\u05d9\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9 <\/span>kiddush,<\/em> <\/span>“the sanctification.” But it’s not the wine that is or becomes holy (no such thing as Jewish holy wine!), it is the Shabbat itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

And ourselves: \u05e7\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9 <\/span>kadosh<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> “holy” (plural: \u05e7\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd, <\/span>kedoshim<\/span><\/em>) is a call, a destiny and a destination, as we read next week, for the people of Israel to become a “kingdom of priests” and “a holy nation” (Ex. 19:6). <\/span><\/p>\n

Another \u05e7\u05d9\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9 <\/span>kiddush<\/span><\/em> is the sanctification of marriage, known as \u05e7\u05d9\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9\u05d9\u05df <\/span>kiddushin<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>where a couple embark on a path to bring sanctity to their relationship. The word used by the groom in his declaration to the bride (and in many egalitarian ceremonies, by the bride to the groom) is \u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9\u05ea <\/span>mekudeshet<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>“sanctified” \u2013 the very same word used in the ceremony at the beginning of a new month, where the waxing new moon is viewed and celebrated, and time itself and its cycles sanctified.<\/span><\/p>\n

From marrying to burying: Then, and every day thereafter for up to a year after the loss of a loved one, an observant Jew says the prayer known as the \u05e7\u05d3\u05d9\u05e9 <\/span>kaddish<\/span><\/em>. Many people assume this incomprehensible Aramaic doxology is somehow a “prayer for the dead” but famously, death or the deceased are not even mentioned. The prayer, as the name attests, is a “sanctification,” this time of God, and God’s life-giving role in the world. Likewise, the voluntary association of Jews who attend the dead body before burial \u2013\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4 \u05e7\u05d3\u05d9\u05e9\u05d0, <\/span>chevra kadisha<\/span><\/em> \u2013 engage in a special sanctification of the body that once housed the soul and life itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

So while \u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9 <\/span>kodesh<\/em> <\/span>and \u05e7\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9\u05d4 <\/span>kedushah<\/span><\/em> and \u05de\u05e7\u05d3\u05e9 <\/span>mikdash<\/em> <\/span>are all noun forms, the Jewish understanding of holiness is much more of a verb \u2013 something we are called to do, to become in the way we live our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":104540,"id":104540,"title":"-62724c78b3d69--62724c78b3d6bex15- milim kodesh holy.jpg","filename":"62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-15\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":41835,"date":"2022-05-04 09:50:48","modified":"2022-07-05 10:32:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":960,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/62724c78b3d69-62724c78b3d6bex15-milim-kodesh-holy.jpg-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"MiliMiliM - 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