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THE BIG IDEA

This time of the year the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the torah energy has a penetrating focus on the core purpose of Kohanim (priests) and the jewish people - offering a complete 3D model of holiness and spiritual purity in the world. 

However, in a reality without a temple, the mission of holiness is an internal orientation rather than an outward practice. 

Consider the actual requirements of holiness… restrictions on your time with a rigorous rest and festival cycle, restrictions on who you can marry (especially if you are a priest), restrictions on which animals you can offer (only perfect animals without physical flaws can be offered), restrictions on who can offer them — (only Kohanim (priests) without physical flaw can offer them…Kohanim with physical defects still enjoy all the benefits of their position - just can’t make the offering)... and restrictions on how you get angry… if you curse (using God’s name) in a moment of rage - you can’t live in the nation anymore. To name a few…

So in these final weeks between Passover and Shavuot, days that are so precious there is spiritual merit in counting them - take some time to evaluate your personal relationship to holiness. How does it appear in your life and the world and the jewish people? Where could you make it more central? And what kind of person and nation would we be if we held and practiced it as an active value?