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This Shabbat we read the double portion, parashat acharei-mot/kedoshim. The content and juxtaposition of these parshiot are fascinating. Most of Acharei-mot describes the sacrificial service of the High Priest, the Kohen Gadol, on Yom Kippur. This is called the ‘Avodah service. There are two moments that lie at the heart of this ritual. First Aharon offers a bull, and then enters the Holy of Holies with incense and a fire-pan of hot coals and places that incense in front of the aron kodesh. The rabbis call this moment, life lifnim, entering into the holiest sanctuary, penetrating deeply into the most sacred space in the world, with an offering of pure fragrance filling that space with his purity of intent and full concentration.
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