On Holiness
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Professor Lenn Goodman, Vanderbilt University, delivers a lecture "On Holiness." "You shall be holy, for I the Lord, thy God, am holy" (Lev. 19:2). But if holiness is defined as transcendence, how do we emulate God's transcendence?
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