Seek Me and You Will Live; Haftorah Acharei-Kedoshim (Amos 9:11)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

The Haftorah of Acharei Mos Kedoshim is from the book of Amos. And the navi Amos prophesied together with other prophets in his generation like Isaiah, Yeshayahu, Micha, Hoshea over 2,600 years ago. Amos was famous for saying the following, there are 613 mitzvahs in the Torah. It's very difficult to remember all the 613. Can you encapsulate it in just one line, in one word, one idea? And the Gemara in Makkos page 24A says that Amos took the entire Torah and he said it comes down to this. Dirshuni vihyu. Which means, seek me out Which means, seek me out and live. Amos said that the entire Torah is one line. Dirshuni vihyu. Seek me out and live. This idea of seek me out and live is really the connection between Acharei and Kedoshim. And the Haftorah. Acharei Mos talks about after the death of the two sons of Aaron. Why did the two sons of Aaron die? two sons of Aaron die? Because they were seeking out God. Dirshuni, they were looking for God. They had a thirst for God. They had a yearning for God. And our rabbis tell us that that yearning is a very positive yearning. Every Jew, every person, every human should have this desire for spirituality, this desire for God, and this this thirst for holiness. However, unfortunately, they went a bit too far. They overdosed on spirituality. They had, as Chassidus says, a ratzo

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