KEDOSHIM

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing upon the interpretation of the title, KEDOSHIM. The Hebrew (IVRI) transliteration KEDOSHIM is interpreted into the English word HOLY. The word HOLY is indicative of the concept of being spiritually PURE. From the impersonal perspective of G-d, HE is viewed as PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS. The blending of these concepts reveals that the CONSCIOUS STATE of NON-DIFFERENTIATION is what is implied by the WORD HOLY.

With this thought in MIND, we place our ATTENTION upon the following passage found in the SIDRAH, it is written, “HaShem spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the entire assembly of the Children of Israel, and say to them: You shall be holy for holy am I, HASHEM your God.” (Leviticus 19:1,2) In this passage of TORAH, it is disclosed that the Jewish People are commanded to be as ECHAD. In other words, we have been predetermined by ECHAD to be a VISIBLE REVELATION of G-d in OLAM (the world).

To be HOLY as ECHAD is HOLY requires that we possess the same NATURE. Without the NATURE of G-d, that is, the UNLIMITED POTENTIAL of ECHAD, it would be impossible to fulfill the MITZVAH (commandment). In other words, G-d would be commanding us to do that which we would be powerless to fulfill. The EMET (truth) that we have been created with UNLIMITED POTENTIAL enabling us to fulfill the MITZVAH can be seen in the following passage found in TORAH, it is written, “I call heaven and earth today to bear witness against you. I have placed life and death before you, blessing and cursing; and you shall choose life, so that you will live, you and your offspring - to love HASHEM, your God, to listen to His voice and to cleave to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days, to dwell upon the land that HaShem swore to your forefathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give them.” (Deuteronomy 30:19,20) In this disclosure, it is revealed that LIFE of the Jew, yea, the CONSCIOUSNESS is indeed ECHAD. No doubt it was received when “… God formed the man of the dust from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the soul of life…” (Genesis 2:7) The revelation that ECHAD is our life along with the EMET (truth) that He blew into our NOSTRILS THE SOUL of LIFE is a disclosure that G-d BLEW HIMSELF into the human conscious experience. As aforementioned, the Jewish People have been DIVINELY PURPOSED to be a VISIBLE MANIFESTATION of this EMET in OLAM. Indeed we are to ASCEND into PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS, thus giving rise to the MANIFESTATION of He UNLIMITED POTENTIAL in the EARTHEN REALM.