Q. I recently heard in a Torah tape that Hashem does not create Kedusha or consecrate Himself things only people do and that is why Yeushalaim, Olam Haba, resurrection and Moshiach are not mentioned in the Torah, since they are not inherently holy and would not exist without human consecration. Is that really true? How about Shabbat, Mount Sinai and the Luchos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a indicated that although kedusha on korbonos and kisvei kodesh (Sefer Torah, Tefilin and Mezuzohs) depends on the action of people and do not become kodosh by themselves, it may not be necessarily true on other instances. He pointed out that permanent kedusha is usually connected and a results from Torah learning. (Nefesh Hachaim, Sha'ar 4 ch. 30)
Meshiv Dovor (2: 80) does indeed sustain the above principle in regards to kisvei kodesh and questions it from kedushas bechor that occurs by itself. However a bechor has to be the property of a Ben Yisroel to become holy, so at some point of the bechor's background the action of a human kinyan must have occurred for it to become kodosh.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
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