[Avodah] Meshech Chochma on kedusha

[Ben Bradley]

I can not now locate the most recent thread about the Meshech Chochma's shita on kedusha, can't get the archive search to work, but IIRC R'MB said the MC holds consistently that kedusha is never inherent to an object, it is an outcome of Jewish input. It always requires human involvement.
So when my pre-hesder son came home from a few days sampling the avira ruchani at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh brandishing a source sheet from a shuir on cheit ha'egel, I took a look at the meshech chochma ad loc, Shemos 32:19

He certainly says, and emphasises, that kedusha is never an indepedantly inherent quality of a place or item. But his point there is that kedusha is always comes from Hashem and is a function of His relationship from with us. It originates with Hashem's tzivui and lasts as long as we relate to it the correct way. If we mess up our attitude to the place or object in question, the kedusha is removed.
Seems clear from his language that he's saying the kedusha does not originate in our actions. It always originates with Hashem for the benefit of our relationship with him, and lasts only as long as that is maintained and as long as it serves that purpose. So WRT to the first luchos - 'Ein bahem kedusha mi'tzad atzmam. Rak bishvilchem she'atem shomrim osam'. If we damage the relationship mi'meila no more kedusha, We can't create kedusha except so far as the Torah specifies, ie still originating in Hashem's tzivui, but we can destroy it.

This, I think, is a far less radical take on kedusha and answers my questions as to how the MC's model of kedusha applies to kohanim and to time.
Ben
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