A Soulful Journey

WHAT IS A JEW? This question is not as strange as it may seem at first glance. Let’s examine this free creature that was insulated and oppressed, trampled on and pursued, burned and drowned by all the rulers and the nations, but is nevertheless living and thriving in spite of the whole world. What is a Jew that did not succumb to any worldly temptations offered by his oppressors and persecutors so that he would renounce his religion and abandon the faith of his fathers? A Jew is a sacred being who procured an eternal fire from the heavens and with it illuminated the earth and those who live on it. He is the spring and the source from which the rest of the nations drew their religions and beliefs. A Jew is a pioneer of culture. From time immemorial, ignorance was impossible in the Holy Land, even more so than nowadays in civilized Europe. Moreover, at the time when the life and death of a human being was worth nothing, Rabbi Akiva spoke against the death penalty which is now co...

What is a Jew? The question is not at all as odd as it seems. Let us see what kind of peculiar creature of the Jew is, which all the rulers and all the nations have together and separately like abused and molested, oppressed and persecuted, trampled and butchered, burned and hanged -and in spite of all this is yet alive? What is the Jew, who has never allowed himself to be let astray by all the earthly possessions which his oppressors and persecutors constantly offered him in order that he should change his faith and forsake his own religion? The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire and has illuminated with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring and fountain out of which all the rest of the people have drawn their beliefs and their religions. The Jew is the pioneer of liberty… The Jew is the pioneer of civilization… The Jew is the emblem of civil and religious toleration… The Jew is the emblem of eternity… -L...