[Avodah] Meshech Chochma on kedusha

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 08:54:46AM +0000, Ben Bradley via Avodah wrote:
> ... 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...

I think we are reading "ve'eizu qedushah beli mitzvas Hashem" differently.

You see it as a reference to the tzivui itself. I see it as a reference
to our performing the mitzvah. And so what you call "and lasts as long
as we relate to it the correct way" to me is just a natural consequence
of qedushah coming from our performance of a mitzvah. As R Meir Simchah
haKohein writes further down,
    ki ein benivra qedushah be'etzem
    raq mitzad shemiras Yisrael haTorah
    kefi Retzon haBorei yisbarakh shemo haqadosh...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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