Do holiness and righteousness mean the same thing?

In my video lecture, which I was required to watch this week, my professor said:

In God’s holiness there is a positive and negative side:
1. Positive – His righteousness.
2. Negative – His justice
When I heard that and put it on my notes, I was drawn to say something about it.
So many people confuse holiness and righteousness as the same meaning, but it is not at all.
In the Strong’s Concordance, the Hebrew word for holiness is qodesh, and it means apartness, sacredness, holiness, separateness, or set-apartness.
In the Strong’s Concordance, the Hebrew word for righteousness is tsedeq, and means justice, rightness or righteousness.
They have two completely different meanings.
It is true that His righteousness and judgment come from His being holy, but they are not the same thing.
Paul said in Romans 3:10, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.”
Many people take that to read that no one can be righteous because no one could keep the Torah. Well, the Torah was not created to make anyone righteous. Even if man could keep it perfectly, it would not make him righteous. Psalms 24:5, in the Tanakh or Old Testament says, “He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” So righteousness always had to do with salvation; not with obeying Torah. Salvation here is yesha` and that is where we get Yeshua’s name from, so Psalms 24:5 really says, “He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his Yeshua.”
According to Leviticus 20:26, holy means separated from those of the world, just as the definition above says. The verse states, “And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.”
This is referred to in 2 Corinthians 6:17 wherein it says, “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”
So His righteousness and judgment come from His holiness, because He is perfect and has no need of salvation. He is the standard. However, our righteousness cannot be achieved by holiness, because in our holiness, we are still as filthy rags according to Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” However, it is Yeshua’s or Yahushua’s blood, which makes us righteous and our filthy rags clean - And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb – Revelation 7:14.
So, in conclusion, we are made holy by coming out of the world and obeying Him, but we are made righteous when we are covered by His blood.

©2010 Kimberly Padilla, A.A Religion