EXOD158 Judaism is almost alone in its insistence on holiness in all things, even in the most mundane matters of life. The Rabbinic advice was: "Be holy even in the prosaic act, performing all thy deeds in the name of Heaven." For this reason does Jewish teaching condemn unchastity in look, thought or act; regarding profanity of speech as an unpardonable offense against Him who made all speech possible. The Jew was taught that "the Lord, thy God, walketh in the midst of thy camp; ... Therefore shall thy camp be holy, that He see no unseemly thing in thee, and turn away from thee [Deut. xxiii.15] One will find that whereas throughout the dark Middle Ages, coarseness and lewdness prevailed among high and low in non-Jewish circles, a spirit of modesty and charity prevailed in the Jewish home, raising it into a model of sanctity--an inspiration to modesty in demeanor and to the practice of the love and charity which their faith taught. "And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them." [Exodus 25:8] by keeping their home life pure, they kept away destruction from their habitations. [this verse] "Their homes become not their graves"-- the earnest plea of the High Priest on the Day of Atonement.