Priests Should Look Good: Both On The Outside and On The Inside

The highest caste in Judaism is priest.  It is higher than Levite, and the Levite caste is higher than the Israelite caste.  There is no law in Judaism that says priests can’t marry.  In fact, the Torah says that the high priest must marry a virgin.

Priests are forbidden from having property.  A priest could be a beggar, but that is unlikely.  Simply by looking good, priests earn their living.  Merchants want to give them their positions because a priest is as a living advertisement to buy a product.  We all know that the models used in advertisements are selected simply for good looks, and that people will buy a product if a good looking model uses the item in appealing way.

I can imagine some objections.  Isn’t Gd concerned with our inner beauty and not our outer beauty?  There is some truth to that.  It is true that Gd is concerned with our inner beauty.  However, people with true inner beauty are more likely to look good.  Why?  There are several reasons.  For one, a good looking person makes those around him or her feel good.  Thus, a positive feedback loop is created where people react to each other and these reactions, these small muscle twitches that exercise our muscles help us look better.  That is through mimicry, priests are able to work with the public and help the public actually look better, and that in turn feeds back to the priest.  This is the power of positive thinking.

Priests are Levites.  They are loving, and want others to look correct.  A good priest knows how to put a smile or a frown on your face.  What I am getting at is that good looks are a choice.  I am not saying that there won’t be some trial and error, and sometimes misconceptions may be adopted based upon inappropriate interpretations of actions.

Isn't that rather audacious to say that good looks are a matter of choice?  Looks like I have some defending to do.

I am suggesting is that there are many reasons for looking in the mirror.  Sometimes looking in the mirror can be narcissistic, but  it can actually also be the complete converse if someone looks in the mirror in order to teach themselves how to look good so that they can paint happy picture on others.  That is, a narcissist looks in the mirror only so that they themselves look better, and they do this in order to make others feel bad about themselves, or to proliferate poor sense of self worth through horrible bodily image.  A priest looks in the mirror so that he or she can help others look better.

If you are considering looking better, I suggest a diet high in vegetables.  The book of Daniel chapter 1 describes that eating vegetables actually makes one look better.  Eating kosher foods, and if nothing else kosher style meats without the kosher label is far better for your looks than eating unclean foods.  So, you see it is a choice.  Eating unclean foods has a negative spiritual affect on us.  Choosing not to eat kosher actually can be a cause for one looking ugly, such that he or she has a poor self image.  People that eat a kosher diet should feel good about themselves, and that they are serving Gd through their actions, which in turn is going to make people want to gain a good positive image of them.

There are many gimmicks to looking good.  The current trend is an attitude of, “The skinnier the better, and there is no such thing as too skinny.”  Those girls that look like walking skeletons have it all wrong.  A healthy person has a few extra pounds, but is not obese.  This affinity for skeletons is a very destructive attitude our society struggles with, and this sort of attitude causes people to become misguided about the absolute truths of looking good.  It wasn’t always that skeletons were considered to be beautiful.  It is a problem that is very recent to our species.

The absolute truth about looking good is that anyone can look good, and the way to go about accomplishing having good looks starts with having a good amount of understanding of how to obey Gd’s law.  The answers to looking good are found in the Jewish canon, let’s let the secrets of good looks be unlocked, and study regularly until we look beautiful.