Kedoshim

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Kedoshim

25 April 2023

This discourse was taught by the Rebbe on Shabbat Sedra Kedoshim, in 1967.  The command 'you should be holy' (Leviticus 19:2) at the beginning of the Sedra is explained by Nachmanides to mean...

Sacred and Mundane

3 May 2022

The Rebbe taught this discourse for Shabbat Kedoshim in 1965. It expresses the central Chassidic idea: that not only the holy, also the mundane can express the Divine.   In this discourse this idea...

The Apotheosis of the Ordinary

7 May 2019

This discourse was said on Shabbat Sedra Kedoshim, 1965. It concerns the Torah instruction about the fruit of a young tree. For the first three years the fruit is forbidden, and then it becomes holy,...

Kedoshim

10 May 2016

This discourse taught by the Rebbe in 1965 discusses the law about fruit trees in the sedra (Lev. 19:23-25) which leads to a fascinating discussion on the relative significance of the sacred and the...

Moshe Kibel Torah 5744

28 April 2009

The Alef Kabbala Group (28 April 09) explored a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, taught on Shabbat Parshat Kedoshim in 1984, begining 'Mosheh Kibel Torah MiSinai', ie: Moses Received the Torah...

The Central Teaching

5774

Hillel's famous summary of the Torah as 'what you do not like, do not do to others,' arguing that interpersonal ethics are at the core of all Jewish teaching. The insight is that the commandments of...

Turning Holiness Upside Down

5771

The concept of holiness, asking whether it means separation from the world or something else. The insight from the Sedra Kedoshim is that holiness in Judaism ultimately means sanctifying ordinary...

Uvashana Hahamishit (5725)

This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Sedra Kedoshim (Diaspora), 5725 (1965). The law of Orlah describes a fruit tree whose produce passes through stages of forbidden, holy, and...

Reaching For Highest Levels

5728

This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Sedra Kedoshim, 5728 (1968). The laws of Orlah in the Sedra describe fruit trees whose produce is forbidden for three years, holy in the fourth,...