On Keeping Clean

As committed Jews in an imperfect world, we’re constantly trying to balance our mundane responsibilities with our spiritual aspirations. We’re even encouraged to engage with the world to transform it into a G-dly place.

The key to remaining pure as we go about our service in a world of negative influences can be learned from the washbasin, used to purify the priests in the Holy Temple.

The purpose of the washbasin in the Temple was to purify the Kohen and make him eligible to offer sacrifices to G-d, or to enter the Holy Temple to prostrate himself before G-d. The lesson to each of us, relates to the sanctuary within the heart of every Jew.