Holiness can mean "set apart" or "morally pure". Another dimension is "untouchable". Maybe the center of "holiness" is purity. There can be things so pure that they shouldn't be touched, and one could also imagine a purity so intense that it can't be touched. Or maybe rather than it being untouchable, it can't be mishandled. If you mishandle it, you die. Or you are simply unable to come close enough to mishandle it.
A woman (or a man) might be holy in the sense of "if you mishandle me, you should, or will, die", in that sense be untouchable. One could then think that God, the most holy, is unreachable, but that assumption isn't necessary. The thing to work with here is the proneness to mishandling. Those who learn to not mishandle generally do so by understanding the holy person, and understanding a holy person is a natural gateway into becoming holy yourself. (Perhaps it is necessary sometimes to become holy in order to understand a holy person.)
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