. Kabbalah, the harmony of opposites : a treatise elucidating Bible allegories and the significance of numbers . l work isthoroughly abreast with the best modern ideas ofuniversal language, and much else that bears closelyon the practical unification of humanity. We readin the Zohar that a day will dawn when the Lordwill change the tongues of all peoples into a singlepure tongue, so that all may invoke His Holy Nameand all pass under His Yoke in one spirit. Thisprediction is virtually made during the recitation ofthe Olcmi, which forms an important part of everyJewish liturgy. There is no dogm
. Kabbalah, the harmony of opposites : a treatise elucidating Bible allegories and the significance of numbers . l work isthoroughly abreast with the best modern ideas ofuniversal language, and much else that bears closelyon the practical unification of humanity. We readin the Zohar that a day will dawn when the Lordwill change the tongues of all peoples into a singlepure tongue, so that all may invoke His Holy Nameand all pass under His Yoke in one spirit. Thisprediction is virtually made during the recitation ofthe Olcmi, which forms an important part of everyJewish liturgy. There is no dogmatic unanimity inIsrael regarding ways and means, but the prevailingsentiment is universally the same throughout Jewryas concerns the final outcome. Judaism holds within 138 Biblical Traditions it the vital germs of universal religion—the Unityof God and the Solidarity of Humanity. Talmud or Midrash may appear very external andexcessively ritualistic, but Kabbalah delves deeplyinto the heart of Israels veiled and guarded mys-teries and introduces us, though not always veryclearly, to a magnificent CHAPTER X. ABRAHAM, MELCHISEDEC, MOSES AND THE LAW. The Sacrifice of Isaac, commemorated by Jewsthroughout the world on the first day of the monthTishri, called Rosh Hashana and Day of Memorialin Jewish calendars, marks the birth of Judaismbecause of the emphasis placed upon a spiritual vs,a carnal idea of sacrifice. All barbaric peoples of-fered literal human sacrifices, and some savage tribescontinue the practise still. Abraham, consideredhistorically, was probably a Chaldean Chief about toconform to the barbaric usage of his place and time;but a bright spiritual light broke in upon his con-sciousness and he came to perceive that the trueoffering of sacrifice is by consecration to high ideals,never by the shedding of literal blood. Even thegrossly carnal mind, which fails to see a spiritualsignificance in any narrative, ought to be able, ifendowed with even the most ordin
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