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THEMES of Featured Ascent Lights
The subtle impurities of the soul can be corrected only by mature consciousness.
The fact that the Torah uses different words when describing oaths and blemishes teaches how we can grow spiritually. Spiritual service begins with oaths because these cause us to make boundaries for
ourselves in the physical world. Learning how to say "no" to a permitted - but extraneous - desire is the beginning of a sincere relationship with G-d.
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Intermediate
Teshuva provides a guaranteed profit.
One of the priests' tasks was to determine if a sign on a
person, garment, or house was, in fact, tzaraat, a spiritual type of
leprosy, or if it was pure. Rebbe Michel of Zlodotchov writes that the priests'
involvement is a hint about the perfectly righteous in each generation, whose
purpose it is to direct us toward better paths of closeness to G-d.
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