{"id":45556,"date":"2018-12-11T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45556"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T07:57:17","slug":"a-how-to-guide-for-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-how-to-guide-for-holiness\/","title":{"rendered":"A How-To Guide for Holiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[480],"acf":{"old_id":"45556","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":42027,"related_cahpter":"109","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"With at least 21 different topic areas, it covers all of life","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe LORD spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, the LORD your God, am holy\u201d (19:1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great, a guide for how to be holy. This is going to be so helpful. One rule or two \u2013 that\u2019ll be it. Right? And as we continue reading past the first few verses, one could become a bit overwhelmed or confused. First we talk about parents, then Shabbat, suddenly we\u2019re speaking about agriculture, then work ethics. Before you know it, we\u2019ve covered sexual morality, back to Shabbat and interpersonal relations. There are at least 21 different topics in this chapter, all under the same title: kedoshim tihiyu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And one could be left with the question\u2026okay, so now what does it mean to be holy? What\u2019s the key to success to be \u201c<em>kedoshim<\/em>\u201d? What it all about? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that the key to being \u201c<em>kedoshim<\/em>\u201d lies exactly in the structure of this chapter. It\u2019s no accident that the chapter covers nearly every aspect of life. It covers the \u201cspiritual\u201d when it speaks of Shabbat, idol worship, and sacrifices, and the \u201cmundane\u201d when it speaks about workers\u2019 wages, agriculture, and hatred for another. In short, this chapter covers the entire gamut of human existence in this world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It appears then, that to be holy is to recognize that holiness does not exist is a small bubble that we can \u201cthe holy parts of life.\u201d We all know that holiness is, and can be found in those moments. It\u2019s easy to see and we know it by experience. However, the real holiness, the way that we don\u2019t just experience holiness, but actually <\/span><b><i>become holy<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is to be able to find, experience, and bring holiness into the most mundane activities in our life. <em>Kedoshim Tihiyu<\/em> is the charge to us to find and bring God, and holiness in every aspect of our life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are holy because God is holy, because we are made in God\u2019s image. 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