ABSTRACT
In Rabbinic phrase, the human soul is a tiny lamp kindled from the Divine torch; it is the "vital spark of heavenly flame." To believe in God is to believe not only in His existence, but also in His faithfulness. He must needs be true to His word, to His promise. "God is not a man that He should lie." Moreover, the aspiration after goodness foreshadows a larger life in which to realise it. Every human being recognises in virtue the one desirable thing. To think of this life as the only opportunity of fulfilling their higher possibilities that is vouchsafed to that countless multitude of human souls is to charge God with folly. It is to write the word "failure" upon the Divine scheme, to declare that the Supreme has endowed men with a capacity for goodness which they were never meant to realise, or which He is powerless to help them to realise.
