Torah Crash Course Part 3 - The Old Testament Laws and the Hope of a New Covenant
Exploring My Strange Bible
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Is There a Kingdom With Priests?
The idea in hebrew, this concept of to be holy isa the hebrew word cadosh. It just means to be set apart or distinct. And so away is the ultimate source of holiness because heis the completely, he is the being the universe to which nothing else can be compared. So it's like there's this this ring of people around him that are called to share in that uniqueness. Holiness was symbolically enacted by the kind of clothes they wear and how they dealt with their bodily fluids. There's a lot about bodily fluids in the book of leviticus botat. But it's a cultural symbolic system. A lot of these are symbolic behaviours that seem
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