Holiness Takes Many Forms
With Parashat K’doshim, we begin what the rabbis of the Midrash recognized to be a distinct section of the Torah, "the section dealing with holiness". In this estimation, they anticipated modern scholarship, which also recognizes a distinct "Holiness Code" within the various strands that comprise our Torah. Characteristic of this portion of Scripture is the repeated injunction, "You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.