just as he picked us out to be part of Hashem's Bechirim  Chosen Ones  before the hivvased tevel  foundation of the world , that we should be kedoshim and without mum  defect, Vayikra 22:20  before him.  In ahavah [Vayikra 11:44; 20:7; Shmuel Bais 22:24; Tehillim 15:2]