The teaching
Everyone quotes "love your neighbor as yourself." Nobody reads the verse before it.
Vayikra, Kedoshim: Be holy. Then come dozens of commands — don't gossip, don't hold grudges, pay your workers on time. Holiness isn't a feeling. It's restraint. What you choose not to do when your ego wants to strike.
In tai chi we call this sung — not collapse, not force. Someone pushes your chest. You don't brace, you don't crumble. You soften into your root and the pressure passes through.
That's kedushah. The discipline of non-reactivity that makes loving your neighbor possible.
One breath before you respond. That breath is the practice.
