NOTES for Lev 20:1-27
Today we read the continuation of the commandments about holiness, only now they are not imperative but prohibitive. We consider it quite normal to see, say, in the instructions for a washing machine or binoculars, points that strictly specify what must not be done because it would be destructive for the device. Nor does it raise questions when a coach forbids an athlete certain foods or stops his harmful habits. Yet when it comes to moral life, protest often arises in us: why is something forbidden? How can anyone forbid me anything?
When we understand that commandments of the moral and religious order are also a description of a certain path along which a person seeking God is called to walk, we will see that in spiritual life there are also natural restrictions on what can be destructive to our relationship with Him.