kedushah

The rhetoric which conflates ideas of kedushah (holiness/sanctification) with acquisition (kinyan) and ignores the tremendous legal disabilities of women participating in marriage by acquisition and the repercussions of kinyan, misrepresents this defective system.

Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Rhetoric has been used to misrepresent the acquisition of women, by referring to kiddushin as a holy act and connecting to it concepts of kedushah and the stability of the Jewish family, community and halakhic Judaism.

Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009

He specifically claims that in matters of kedushah, sanctity, women are equal to men.

Feinstein, Rabbi Moses. 2009

May your deliberations be filled with compassion and honesty as you work to make our Jewish communities places that are marked by righteousness and kedushah.

UJ Students’ Letter to The Law Committee on Gay Vote | Jewschool 2006

But then they had to enter the 49 levels of kedushah on their own, step by step.

Israelated - English Israel blogs 2009

In fact, the produce from this past Jewish year has the status of kedushah

English-writing Israeli-bloggers 2008