Acharei-Kedoshim

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How could the newly liberated Jew know what his or her real self was? How could a recently freed slave understand his or her potential, much less how to actualize it?

Leaving Egypt was not just a physical change in geography.

Do I need to be blind to the faults of another?

No form of energy is of any use unless there is a way to channel and harness it. Otherwise, the energy simply dissipates.

I was feeling great before she walked into the room. She came in, our eyes met, and my joie de vivre started to deflate . . .

Once I was hooked on raw food, the awful restrictions seemed like a privileged progress towards a higher plane of sensitivity and consciousness—precisely the Jewish view of G-d’s restrictions.

What are the implications of the Torah’s cautionary remark about sensitivity towards a blind man? Personal liability is a topic that’s already been laid out in the Torah in graphic detail, so what’s the new mitzvah that G‑d is teaching us here?

Isn’t marriage between man and woman a violation of the laws of kilayim, which prohibit the intermixing of divergent species?