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pointed out to the students that they had not mentioned even one
Most students recognized this as a valid ‏!מצוה שבין אדם לחבירו
criticism. But one actually argued with me that the omission was
מצוות שבין אדם via קדוש correct, because one does not become
‏,קדושה she argued, is a result of ‏,מצוות in such זהירות Proper ‏.לחבירו
but not its creator.
Yes, מצוות שבין אדם לחבירו do not have the aura of קדושה that
some other rituals carry. Helping another person does not make us
feel frum. Children have not seen or felt that the adults around them
invested these activities with קדושה and rated them as being holy,
Such an attitude stems from gross ignorance and a total lack of ‏.קדוש
understanding of Torah and of what קדושה means. After all, when the
tells us to “cleanse” ourselves, he does not advise us to engage in נביא
) 45 name: rituals, rather he says, in G-d’s בין אדם למקום
טז)‏ רַחֲצוּ הִזַּכּוּ הָסִירוּ רֹעַ‏ מַעַלְלֵיכֶם מִנֶּגֶד עֵינָי חִדְלוּ הָרֵ‏ ‏ַע:‏
דִּרְשׁוּ מִשְׁפָּט אַשְּׁ‏ רוּ חָמוֹץ שִׁפְטוּ יָתוֹם רִיבוּ אַלְמָנָה:‏
לִמְדוּ הֵיטֵב
16. Wash, cleanse yourselves, remove the evil of your deeds from
before My eyes, cease to do evil. 17. Learn to do good, seek justice,
strengthen the robbed, perform justice for the orphan, plead the
case of the widow.
This is, thus, by no means a new or modern phenomenon. As we
‏.נביאים see from the above posuk, it was a problem in the days of the
It continued as a problem in the Second Bais HaMikdosh.
The Gemara in Pesachim 85a tells us that פיגול (a sacrificed animal
that had been invalidated because the Kohen had the wrong intent
מטמא את was declared by the Rabbis to be ‏,(עבודה while doing the
to defile the hands of the Kohen who touched it. The Gemara ‏,הידים
explains that, according to one opinion, this was done because some
Kohanim were suspected of deliberately invalidating the sacrifices
brought by people they didn’t like, thus damaging them monetarily
(since the damaged party would now have to bring a replacement
sacrifice). It was hoped that declaring the hands of the offending
Kohen ritually impure and requiring immersion in a Mikvah would
prevent Kohanim from deliberately damaging their enemies in this
way. Tosfos ask, if these Kohanim were suspected of damaging the
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