Kedoshim

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This page is about Kedoshim, a parsha in the yearly Torah cycle. See Kodashim for the Order of the Mishnah by that name.

Kedoshim, K’doshim, or Qedoshim (קדושים – Hebrew for "holy ones,” the 14th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 30th weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 19:1–20:27. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in late April or May.

The lunisolar Hebrew calendar contains up to 54 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years. In years with 54 weeks (for example, 2008), parshah Kedoshim is read separately on the 30th Sabbath after Simchat Torah. In years with fewer than 54 weeks (for example, 2006, 2007, and 2009), parshah Kedoshim is combined with the previous parshah, Acharei, to help achieve the needed number of weekly readings.

Kodshim is also the name of the fifth order in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud. The term "kedoshim" is sometimes also used to refer to the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, whom some call "kedoshim" because they fulfilled the mitzvah of Kiddush Hashem.

“You shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field.”
“You shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field.”

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[edit] Summary

[edit] Holiness

God told Moses to tell the Israelites to be holy, for God is holy. (Lev. 19:1–2.) God’s instruction, considered by scholars to be part of the Holiness Code, then enumerates how people can be holy. God instructed the Israelites:

[edit] Penalties for Transgressions

God then told Moses to instruct the Israelites of the following penalties for transgressions.

one imagining of Molech
one imagining of Molech

The following were to be put to death:

  • One who gave a child to Molech (Lev. 20:1–2.)
  • One who insulted his father or mother (Lev. 20:9.)
  • A man who committed adultery with a married woman, and the married woman with whom he committed it (Lev. 20:10.)
  • A man who lay with his father’s wife, and his father wife with whom he lay (Lev. 20:11.)
  • A man who lay with his daughter-in-law, and his daughter-in-law with whom he lay (Lev. 20:12.)
  • A man who lay with a male as one lies with a woman, and the male with whom he lay (Lev. 20:13.)
  • A man who married a woman and her mother, and the woman and mother whom he married (Lev. 20:14.)
  • A man who had carnal relations with a beast, and the beast with whom he had relations (Lev. 20:15.)
  • A woman who approached any beast to mate with it, and the beast that she approached (Lev. 20:16.)
  • One who had a ghost or a familiar spirit (Lev. 20:27.)

The following were to be cut off from their people:

  • One who turned to ghosts or familiar spirits (Lev. 20:6.)
  • A man who married his sister, and the sister whom he married (Lev. 20:17.)
  • A man who lay with a woman in her infirmity, and the woman with whom he lay (Lev. 20:18.)

The following were to die childless:

  • A man who uncovered the nakedness of his aunt, and the aunt whose nakedness he uncovered (Lev. 20:19–20.)
  • A man who married his brother’s wife, and the brother’s wife whom he married (Lev. 20:21.)

God then enjoined the Israelites faithfully to observe all God’s laws, lest the Promised Land spew them out. (Lev. 20:22.) For it was because the land’s former inhabitants did all these things that God dispossessed them. (Lev. 20:23.) God designated the Israelites as holy to God, for God is holy, and God had set the Israelites apart from other peoples to be God’s. (Lev. 20:26.)

[edit] Commandments

According to Maimonides and Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 13 positive and 38 negative commandments in the parshah:

“The Red Vineyard” (painting by Vincent van Gogh)
“The Red Vineyard” (painting by Vincent van Gogh)

[edit] Haftarah

The haftarah for the parshah is:

[edit] Further reading

The parshah has parallels or is discussed in these sources:

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