Inherent Holiness - Rabbi Andrew Israeli

as the torah introduces us to the concept of kidoshimtu karshpark who uses a very enigmatic lashon to describe our level of kedusha and as our parsha begins this coming shabbos here in america kidushimtihu so we have to ask ourselves what's this language of kidoshim to you that we call israel is going to have this sense and going to be defined by this element of kedusha the talichayam the great khalbhan describes that kidoshimtu is not considered to be a bakasha it's not a request of akareshparahu it's not hashem coming down and suggesting perhaps or recommending to us that we should be kidoshim that claulysrel should have this element of kedusha but rather to quote the khalbhan to quote him so the khaban describes that kidosham to you is that we are involved in what's called a lashon surah it's allah shown it's a language that akash baraku uses that is a washroom of you are inherently a am kadosh you the jewish people inherently are kidosham to you it's not kidoshim haiyu it's not another form of you will have this element of holiness it's rather we the jewish people are uh imbued with the sense of tremendous kedusha regardless of what we do when we think about uh the day of yomazi karo in yomatsumot we think about the fact that we have so many kadoshim that have uh that have unfortunately been most serene fashion hashem and when we think about the concept of kedusha when we think about all that goes into living the life of kedusha so the reminds us that it's not a choice that we make it's not a recommendation or a suggestion of the ribonus shalom but rather it's the pintuli yid it's inherent in every single jew that every jew is born with this uh deep sense of kedusha within them and we have this mandate not only to maintain that aspect of holiness that's within us but to continue to try to attain the kedusha in the world in our lives and to instill our lives in everything that we do with the highest and utmost levels of kedusha