the Law, and the Menorah or Sevenfold Candlestick, no vestige of anything material is found in the confines of the Jewish House of Worship. The Synagogue is as non-material in its suggestion of the divine, as any place of worship could possibly be.

Because of his innate prejudice against picturing the spiritual, the historic Jew developed neither art nor sculpture. In all the antiquities of Palestine, not one painting, statue nor image has been unearthed. The Jews are peculiarly spiritual in their attitude to the Godhead. Moreover, the main effort of Moses and the later Prophets of Israel was to draw the Jewish people from the pagan cults of the surrounding nations, and to educate them in Spiritual Monotheism. Witness the story of the Golden Calf. Moses rebuked Aaron and the people, not only because of their worship of an animal, but because they dared to adore the Godhead through nature or a natural object.

All in all, Judaism is absolutely opposed to materialism whether in Religion or Philosophy. All Jewish thinkers from the days of Moses have stood for the broadest conception of Divinity. In fact, Jewish philosophy is so very spiritual that it refuses to ascribe even names or attributes to the Godhead. All limitation of the Deity by terms or epithets are proscribed by the best Jewish minds. Take for example the philosophic work "The Guide of the Perplexed," written by Moses Maimonides in the Twelfth Century. The main thesis of this book is that the conception of the infinity of God precludes