J7-17: Is Unauthorized Transmission of God’s Holiness Possible?

We know that the Torah provides a variety of different remedies if a human being or an object becomes unclean.

Some of the prescribed remedies involves washing the contaminated object or person with water.

Or if the object is porous and has absorbed so much uncleanness that it can never be brought back to a state of purity, it is destroyed.

This leads us to the $64,000 question: What happens when we’re dealing with holiness instead of impurity?

Here’s the answer: holiness can spread in the same way impurity spreads but God would NEVER allow it.

Does that sound like a bunch of double talk?

Well let me try to illustrate with an admittedly imperfect example from the medical world.

We know that there are some blood diseases that can spread if they come into contact with our skin and especially so if they were to come into contact with an open sore or cut.

However, if proper precautions are taking such as by wearing rubber gloves and masks, the possibility of infection is rendered a mere medical theory.

In other words, we have a way to render something that is a possibility into an impossibility.

In the same way, holiness can indeed be spread by physical contact to unauthorized human beings and objects, but the Lord would NEVER allow it to happen…not without the contaminated person or object being destroyed anyway (as what happened to Achan).

Hence, the possibility of holiness being spread in an unauthorized manner is rendered a divine theory.

This is a non-negotiable Biblical principle that has not nor will ever be done away with.