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Contrasts Prove
Coexistence
Shabbat Kedoshim: Leviticus 19:1-20:27;
Ezekiel 22:1-19.
I
f we were to speculate that doshim includes a third person-
the Bible is redacted from dif- ality. This one is deeply upset by
ferent sources, behind Ke- any intermingling of different
doshim would stand distinct kinds: "You shall not allow two
personalities. One is nice and different kinds of beast to mate
tells us to love our neighbor. The together. YOu shall not plant
other is nasty — really nasty — your field with two kinds of seed.
and tells us to punish people by You shall not put on a garment
burning or stoning them to woven with two kinds of yarn"
(19:19).
death.
Such mixtures, prohibited for
The nice side ofKedoshim has
normal daily life, are
eternal appeal. Our in-
sometimes required for
stinct for fair play ap-
holy office. The materi-
proves of injunctions to
als of the sanctuary (Ex-
take care of the poor, to
odus 25:1-9) included
be honest, to pay work-
both linen and goats'
ers promptly, to respect
hair. In Deuteronomy,
the disabled, to avoid
22:9, it is clear that the
bearing a grudge (19:9-
forbidden mixture cre-
14), and our all-time fa-
ates the condition of ho-
vorite: "Love your
JOE L EWIS
liness and that holiness
neighbor like yourself,"
(19:18; translations dif- SPECIAL TO THE is not always a desirable
condition: "You are not
fer, but the gist seems JEWISH NEWS
to sow your vineyard
clear). Here is an inclu-
sive vision of society, with a twice (or, with two mixed kinds
of seeds), lest the full yield be-
place for every person.
The nasty personality repre- come holy."
Many of us would like kind-
sents punishment and exclusion
from society. To be sure, pun- ness to temper cruelty and
ishments must sometimes be severity to temper love; we seek
imposed, but burning and ston- a balance between justice and
ing are repugnant. Who among mercy, a mutual mitigation
us, aware of the Shoah and of which will guide us to proper be-
the autos da fe which killed our havior. But Kedoshim seems to
ancestors in their agony, could prescribe a society in which the
impose so barbaric a sentence as extremes of human nature are
sharpened rather than softened,
burning?
As for stoning (20:2, 27), re- a society both inclusive and ex-
member the recent account clusive, and to describe — per-
of a girl who suffered this haps to warn us about — a
punishment in a modern theoc- condition in which distinct ex-
racy? Raped by her brother's tremes coexist.
The oldest man in England —
friend and too young to testify
in her own defense, she was he was 111 when he died,
convicted of fornication. A truck though some say he was 118 —
full ofjagged stones pulled up to lived for a time in my parents'
the execution site, the self-right- house. They three were the only
eous locals set to work, and be- kosher Jewish vegetarians in
fore long the girl's pathetic Bournemouth. To see the light
whimpers faded into a bloody si- in Harris Shoerats' eyes as he
danced with the Torah on Sim-
lence.
Both the barbaric cruelty and chat Torah was to see the re-
the all-embracing love exist to ward for a humble and saintly
pursue the quality of holiness. life. "Harris," we once asked him
Moses is told to get everyone to- as he prepared his simple meal
gether and give them God's mes- — oats without milk, vegetables
sage: "You are to be holy because without seasoning — "what ad-
vice can you give us?" He gave
I am holy" (19:2).
Though cruelty and kindness us a sly and defensive look, sus-
seem incompatible, any parent picious that mockery rather
knows that they can coexist. than respect had prompted the
The mother driven to yell at question. In a soft voice, he
her whining child in the super- quickly said, "Don't mix things."
Don't mix things, lest you get
market loves the child nonethe-
mixed up in the simultaneous
less.
As a commentary on the cru- extremes, the unresolved di-
el and kind personalities, Ke- chotomies, the terrible and di-
vine condition of holiness.
Dr. Joe Lewis is a teacher and
Perhaps this is the wisdom of
consultant who makes custom
a centenarian and the message
benchers, haggadot and other
of Kedoshim.
Hebrew books.