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- Shabbos, however, is treated to a designation that the other days are not. It is called “kodesh,” without any modifiers, because it is the source of all kedusha h. The other days are appropriately referred to as mikra’ei kodesh, days called to kedusha h.
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Jun 20, 2012 · I understood the term to mean designated, differentiated or set aside for a purpose. So Kiddush-קידוש would be the verbal declaration that designates the day of Shabbat and differentiates it from all the days that precede it (see the Rambam on the Mitzva of Kiddush).
Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time, to be attached to sacred events, to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals; and our Holy of Holies is a shrine that neither the Romans nor the Germans were able to burn . . . .
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That exhortation is preceded by a list of prohibited sexual relations and followed by a list of restrictions on the way one relates to business associates, neighbors, hired laborers, and the handicapped, as well as “ritual” restrictions on such activities as eating fruit from a young tree, eating blood, and practicing sorcery–all bearing the motive...
Despite the separatist tendency in the rhetoric of the Bible’s treatment of holiness, the ways in which holiness came to be attributed to persons, objects, places, and times in Biblical religion were markedly similar to those of other ancient Near Eastern cultures. Holiness is imparted and maintained through ritual,prayer, formal declaration, and t...
Is attaining holiness a matter of living up to the standards of law, or of exceeding them, perhaps so much as to be the rare saintly person? Medieval Jewish thinkers adopted a variety of positions on this question. For some, it is enough to refrain from illicit behavior. Others view the requirements and restrictions of Jewish law (halakhah)as an en...
Jul 10, 2024 · Jews consider the seventh day, which is called Shabbat or the Sabbath, as a holy day of rest; they refrain from work and spend time worshiping God. This makes Shabbat or the Sabbath kadosh because it is special and distinct from the other days of the week.
May 21, 2016 · The ish ha-da’at, the universal religious person, as Rav Soloveitchik terms it, is the religious figure who sees the escape from the body as a prerequisite for spiritual striving. There is a more mainstream Jewish approach to kedusha. It suggests that the body is neither to be vilified nor glorified.
KEDUSHAH (Heb. קְדֻשָּׁה). The biblical term for holiness is kodesh; mishnaic Hebrew, kedushah, and that which is regarded as holy is called kadosh.
In Genesis, God declares Shabbat to be holy, but in Parashat Kedoshim, we are holy because God is holy, and the obligation to keep Shabbat is put on us. In Leviticus 16:31, Yom Kippur is called a Shabbat Shabbaton, the Shabbat of all Shabbats.
