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Stadium Blvd. Phone: (313) 669-9500 • Okemos • 1802 W. Grand River Ave. Phone (313) 349-2000 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.