A major theme in this week’s Torah portion is the holiness of the “Priestly Class” of the Jewish people and the strict code of holiness they are required to follow.

The priests who bless the congregation may do so only if they are happy, and a Jew is truly happy on a daily basis only in the Holy Land.

In giving us the Torah in the desert, God was freeing us not just from the reality of slavery, but also from the mentality of slavery.