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Naso – 5000
Bamidbar Shavuous – 5782
Behar Bechukosai – 5000
Emor – 5782
Acharei Mos Kedoshim 5781
JUST THINK ABOUT IT!
The first mitzvah of Kedoshim instructs us ‘to be holy because HaShem your G.D is holy’. The Torah is stating that HaShem’s holiness is the cause for us to be holy. Holiness in this context refers to being removed from the materialism of this world. The notion of HaShem’s holiness is that He is removed from the material world, He exists outside of this universe. To be more accurate, HaShem exists outside the spiritual realms as well; He created those realms just as He created the material world. HaShem is therefore Absolute Holiness. The question we must ask is how can HaShem’s holiness be the reason for us to be holy? HaShem’s holiness is intrinsic and such holiness within the sphere of the human condition is absurd. We understand that the Torah would not instruct us to be creators because HaShem is a creator. Such a mitzvah would be absurd since creation is the exclusive domain of HaShem. In a similar way HaShem’s holiness cannot be the reason for Man to be holy since His holiness is of a totally different nature.
Pesach II – 5782
Vayakheil Pikudei 5781
SHABBOS; KEEPING THE WORLD ALIVE
This week’s Parsha, Vayakheil-Pikudei, opens with HaShem’s instruction to Moshe to instruct his people on keeping the Shabbos. “Six days shall your work be done and the seventh day shall be kodesh to HaShem” The Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh asks why the Torah instructs us to work six days, there is no mitzvah to perform work on the week-days. He also notes that the Torah does not say we should work six days but rather that our work should be done on those six days. Why does the Torah not say to work six days?
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