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The Mantra of Judaism: I Am Holy - G-d Says: "You Can Be Like Me!"

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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the yeshiva dotnet the opening verses of the portion of Kadosh iam read by a debris a denial motion lamer Hashem speaks to moisture God speaks to Moses this is what he says debur al-kahlid ospina is revoir Mart alayhim conditioned tu ki kadosh ani adonai elohim speak to the entire community of the children of israel and tell them say to them conditioned to you you shall be holy because I are the Lord I God am holy in the original tell the Jewish people conditioned to you be holy because oash be sacred why ki kadosh ani because i I'm holy I God your God I am holy what does it mean to be holy what is this Mitzvah what is the nature of the commandment conditioned tu b holy what does it mean to be holy Rashi the most basic fundamental biblical commentator and many of the commentaries explain that to be holy means to separate oneself from all forms of intimate promiscuity of immorality that is connected to physical relations to words of Rashi our have a Prussian min har I assume in ha Vera chicamocha mata might say gather ever at the might say kedusha Kadosh MTU is an injunction on a particular type of lifestyle a lifestyle that is refined a lifestyle that is sacred what does it express itself according to Rashi and the way a person behaves when it comes to their intimate relations to remain segregated from all forms of immodesty and promiscuity when it comes to this very powerful force in human nature Rambin Nachman aries Rashi lived in the 11th century in the ten hundreds in France Rambin Robin amoeba Nachman our humanities lived in the 13th century in Spain and he maintains that the mitzvot

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  1. 0:00the yeshiva dotnet the opening verses of the portion of Kadosh iam read by a debris
  2. 6:04tells his wife you know I have to leave and she says would he have to
  3. 12:36opens up the Med Rishabha on this verse the question becomes actually stronger and meddra Shravan
  4. 19:11days I may find myself in a very fragmented broken place and I may search for
  5. 25:51measure Bush the city of his grandfather which was in the Ukraine and he passed away
  6. 32:21Frye and the grandson of the Baal Shem Tov conclude he says about how masculine oven
  7. 39:04are it's so powerful that the unity is unimaginable how profound it is how deep it
  8. 45:45repeat this phrase I am holy in order to remind yourself who you truly are what
  9. 52:38the second is proving that I am worthless proving that my life must be one of
  10. 59:05as you have been foreigners in Egypt you know the pain of being a stranger because

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