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Achare Mot and Kedoshim are at the core of Sefer Vayikra, centered on kedusha and tahara (and their opposites hol and tuma).

Kedusha is defined as being set apart, sacrosanct, and not muddled with other things, while tahara is framed as purity from behaviors that drag a person into mundane, genetically driven impulses; in these parashiyot, tuma often refers to the impurity of transgression rather than ritual contamination...

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