The Importance of Holiness

I was just talking to someone at lunch and we mentioned this idea that too often holiness as you said is connected to a sort of superficial piety or devotion, a sense of spirituality. That's not what we should understand by holiness. In the Old Testament they talked about cleanness which was a ritual state butCleanness was part of holiness and holiness was bigger than cleanness because cleanness was just focused on the ritual whereas holiness was the whole package.