{"id":55212,"date":"2019-05-09T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=55212"},"modified":"2022-07-06T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:07:28","slug":"kedoshim-holiness-in-all-times-and-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/kedoshim-holiness-in-all-times-and-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Kedoshim: Holiness In All Times And Places"},"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":[480,381],"acf":{"old_id":"55212","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36663,"related_cahpter":"1043","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But what is expected of us in our quest to be holy?","content":"<p>Holiness.\u00a0It is at the root of what is expected of us as individual Jews, as a people, and a nation.\u00a0 This week\u2019s portion, titled \u201cHoliness\u201d is one which encapsulates many of the laws and concepts that enable us as Jews to reach this value.\u00a0Leviticus Rabba 24 says that \u201cmost of the essential laws of the Torah can be derived from it\u201d and these chapters, from Leviticus 19:1 \u2013 20:27 contain 51 commandments, 13 positive and 38 negative, according to the medieval book <em>Sefer Hachinuch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to summarize or classify the many items this portion discusses, I want to focus specifically on one that is at the heart of the portion, at the core of the Torah itself and at the center of Judaism. Leviticus 19:18 reads, \u201cYou shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, love your fellow as yourself, I am the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sefer Hachinuch tells us that to love Israel is mitzvah 243, and that \u201cthis mitzvah is observed in every place and in every time\u201d meaning that there is no time or place in which circumstances override it.\u00a0Sefer Hachinuch gives a common sense explanation of the command: &#8220;The root of the commandment is well-known &#8211; as in the way that he acts to his fellow, so will his fellow act to him. And there will be peace among the creatures with this.&#8221; It also tells us that\u00a0Rabbi Akiva said in the Sifra, 4:12 that this is a \u201cgreat principle in the Torah\u201d because so many other commandments are dependent upon it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If we really consider the possessions and property along with the general well-being of others as we consider our own, we will have empathy for others.\u00a0 Once we have empathy, we can behave towards other people with the <em>chesed<\/em>, overflowing kindness, that is the hallmark of our goals as Jews.\u00a0 There are many emanations out from this central mitzvah.<\/p>\n<p>On the week we read this portion in the Diaspora we also celebrate the independence of Israel, on the fifth of Iyar.\u00a0In a state ostensibly set up to enable Jews to live out Jewish values, following the dictate of loving fellow Jews in order to create and increase holiness must continue to be the central mission.\u00a0Jews everywhere have the opportunity to 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