The whole book of “Vayikra” (Levicitus) could be called the book of “Holiness” because it gives us all the laws of how to maintain ourselves a holy people. Holiness applies to any place you might be in, it is not confounded only to houses of worship or your home. Even a person as distinguished as a big Rabbi is capable of falling to the lowest of the lowest if he is obsessed with “unbridled lust” and can come to reduce himself to the level of the basest of individuals or G-d forbid even lower than an animal.
When it says “You shall be holy unto Me, for I, G-d ,am holy”(Lev20:26) what it means is that YOU are holy, you are uplifted; therefore you must not degrade yourselves and sink so low.
When educating children we do not need to hit them or punish them, just by telling them that their behavior is not befitting to who they really are and that it really lowers them down. This concept applies to us adults too. Next time you are going to think, say or do something ” , think is this befitting to who I really am? In that way you will be able to live up to who you really are.
Experts taken from “Talks On The Parasha” by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
“Live a little higher”
