https://www.facebook.com/avi.rabinowitz/posts/10159150211287954:2
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See my posts for: Shimni and Tazri/Metzorah, and Acharei Mos/Kedoshim
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Avi Rabinowitz may I ask, is it possible for you, to write more on the matter of holiness? Or was that everything to know?
Mircea Einstein thanks so much, almost sunset here in Jlm, will hopefully add a bit after shabbat. read 'mesilat yesharim' by ramchal/Luzatto
https://www.sefaria.org/Messilat_Yesharim?lang=bi
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Would you like to explain what holiness is?
Ken Lee Great question! I am not quallified to respond authoritatively, but I suggest reading the book I mention in my comment below.
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'mesilat yesharim' by ramchal/Luzatto
https://www.sefaria.org/Messilat_Yesharim?lang=bi
Holiness is a state, a goal of self-development, and so I who have not pursued that cannot truly describe what it is. However I would suggest reading 'mesilat yesharim' by ramchal/Luzatto
https://www.sefaria.org/Messilat_Yesharim?lang=bi
This holy book (linked to above) is a manual for practice, how to ascend step by step to holiness through character-refinement. Each chapter is a step, and the steps are sequential, so it is truly a manual for self-development rather than a text to read or study. The author,was himself known to have followed this path and so he IS qualified to speak on the subject..
The last public step is outlined in the final chapter of the book ,Chapter 26, titled 'holiness'. Below I have copied the first paragraph of that chapter. Note that it is like a commentary on the dual usage of the phrase I mentioned in what I wrote:
ענין הקדושה כפול הוא, דהיינו: תחלתו עבודה וסופו גמול, תחלתו השתדלות וסופו מתנה. והיינו: שתחלתו הוא מה שהאדם מקדש עצמו, וסופו מה שמקדשים אותו, והוא משז"ל (יומא לט א): אדם מקדש עצמו מעט מקדשים אותו הרבה. מלמטה מקדשים אותו מלמעלה.
The matter of holiness is dual. Its beginning is service [of G-d] while its end is reward; its beginning is exertion while its end is a [divine] gift. That is, its beginning is that which a person sanctifies themselves, while its end is their being sanctified. This is what our sages, of blessed memory, said: "if one sanctifies oneself a little, they become much sanctified. If one sanctifies oneself below, they become sanctified from above" (Yomah 39a).
Since you have an interest in this topic, I encourage you to read the author's introduction, and chapter 1. After reading that, you will be well-equipped to begin further research on the topic, or to actually implement his path.
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Snake tempted via be as God,this was gods way of determining that they had deep yearnings to grow , and chose to that path freely,and therefore gave them the gift of olam hazeh, a gym...