Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii Sanctification Through Union Man's holiness 259b-The notion of holiness has been only in the.. community, designated (see chapter iv) as the ethical Footnote: The & v ' thingsTnd0tm if'eal f Judaism. The sanctification of life, purifications are.... r 11 i i symbols for the then, is the aim ot all morality, and sancti notions of consecration and fjcation (as Was sllown in 189-194) conanalogous notion sjsts jn tjie perfectjon an(j absoluteness of the moral and in the conception of the moral as the highest purpose in life, the purpose that regulates and rules all other purposes. Holiness, therefore, is directed towards the total of morality--towards the harmonious unity of all moral ideas as well as the compact unity of the ethical person, the manifestation of moral character. Finally, it follows that sanctification of life implies the union of men, and in this respect, too, holiness is directed towards the total of morality: all beings called to be moral in and through morality shall be bound together as a unit. For, in a true and real sense, not the individual can be holy, but only the community. God is the only single being that is holy. And this view held by Judaism is confirmed in its literature by the simple fact that throughout the Scriptures the only ethically holy person referred to in the singular is God. Whenever holiness is mentioned in connection with other persons, it is an attribute applied to the majority or to the whole of the people.1 The laws, most of the commands and the prohibitions, are put in the singular, as, for instance, the Ten Commandments, and though sometimes the singular alternates with the plural, in the case of the requirement "you shall be holy," there is hot, in the whole Of..."
