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The hopes, the ideals, and the convic- tions that belong to our age are often denied free expression. Can you hope to draw men near to the divine with these strange and obsolete elements? Is not God defamed rather than glorified when one ministers at the altar with offerings which have lost their force and their truth. To set the ritual higher than rectitude was the cardinal sin against which the ethical monotheism of the prophets so fiercely contended. Again, there are modern preachers ready t...o espouse all sorts of vagaries. If such arise less frequently among the Jews than elsewhere, there is a reason. It is because of the conviction expressed in the dictum, K*2JD Bnj DSP "The sage is greater than the prophet. "— (B. B. 42). This sentiment found general acceptance in Israel. The age of prophecy yielded to the age of scholarship. This fact argues not retrogres- sion but progression. The consecration of the priest and the inspiration of the prophet alike must pass under 116 THE RABBI'S CAREER the intellectual judgment of a clarified wisdom.
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