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“Speak to the B’nei Yisrael and say to them: Any man whose wife shall go astray and commit treachery against him…”

– BaMidbar 5:12

“And Hashem said to Moshe, “Descend, warn the people, lest they break through to Hashem to see, and a multitude of them will fall.’”

– Sh’mos 19:21

“If you will follow My decrees and observe My commandments and perform them…”

— VaYikra 26:2

“You shall sound a broken blast on the shofar, in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the shofar throughout your land.”

“And when you gather the cuttings of your land, do not cut the corner of your field when you harvest, and the fallings of your harvesting do not gather. For the poor man and the convert, you should leave them.”

– VaYikra 23:22

“You shall be holy, for holy am I, your G-d.”

– VaYikra 19:2

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In this one sweeping statement, the Torah assigns to us a mitzvah that seems well beyond our capacity – be holy. Even more perplexing, this isn’t relegated only to the elite, or to the most pious. Rather, every Jew is commanded to be sacred.