Living Stone

In phrases like ‘hewn from the living stone’ living refers to connection to the source, like a ‘live wire’.

References

While wiktionary indicates ‘living stone/rock’ is rock carved in situ, Claude AI made the connection to source. Compare also ‘living water’.

But note concept of flow common to ‘living water’ and ‘live wire’.

And connection in Fr De Young work about ‘cut off’ in Torah ambiguous to exile or execution.