Built into the mitzva for every Jew to be holy is the demand that each be living and interacting with people - in a holy manner. When one fulfills the laws, ethics, standards and mitzvos that apply between people - this is holiness! When you can practice holiness in your interactions with other people, that is when you have achieved holiness. That is when you've passed the test. That is when you've made it.

G-d created a population of people in order to present very real scenarios in which other makes demands and impose their needs. It is our generous, honest, respectful, merciful and benevolent responses that show we have become a spiritual entity. Devotion to G-d with indifference to His children is like loving a king and spurning his princes. The way you behave to people determines the way Heaven behaves to you (Sota 8b). One of the causes of personal trouble or suffering is because of damage, hate, anger, quarrel, cruelty or mistreatment between Jew and Jew. Among the main keys to personal and national salvation are love, kindness, charity, compassion, respect, peace and unity between Jew and Jew. True service of G-d requires fulfilling one's obligation to G-d and one's fellow. One without the other is not Torah. Ploney, who considers himself to be on a high spiritual level, mumbles his pious devotions during Shmoneh Esray (the standing, silent prayer) and the noise makes it impossible for several people around him to concentrate. In Jewish law he is not holy. He is just a bother (Orech Chaim 101:2). We may hope that G-d will treat us the way we would like to be treated when we treat His creations the way they would like to be treated. Being a force for the next Jew's good is like adding a brick to the edifice of Jewish salvation. To be continued.