<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">Acharei Mot</span></font></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"> is the only Torah portion with the word "death" in its title. As we know, death in Judaism is associated with tamei.</span></font></font></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">However, as everything must be taken in context, so too, should death. The portion "Acharei Mot" is followed by "Kedoshim".</span></font></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">So the context is much more optimistic than at first appearance. "Acharei Mot" </span></font></font><span style="font-family: Mangal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">–</span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"> "AFTER death", is "Kedoshim", holiness.</span></font></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">Death is not the finality; holiness is.</span></font></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161711" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>