The Ashkenazi Revolution

11The verse does not speak of just any grass or just any tree but grass that“forms seed” and fruit trees that “spread seed over the Earth.” As if to say,grass and fruit that have continuity, which have seed. That is, time thatcontinues into the future in parallel to cosmic time. It is upon the grass andthe fruit trees to make the effort to survive long-term, each according to itskind – so that they do not disappear. This is their destiny. All this is inaccordance with the basic premise that the world is, first and foremost, aworld of time. Within the world each species struggles. Each plant andanimal, for its own time, so that it may survive as long as possible inparallel to cosmic time.2From a distance, modern science sees, in time and motion, the foundationsof the world. In theory, we can envision a world shrinking to such analarming extent that the foundations of movement and distance almostdisappear. But even a world of only four cubits cannot exist outside theframework of time. For time is the ultimate and primal dimension.Mankind is the seedling of human time. The generation is the magic carpetof the seedling of human time. The generations are a procession of magiccarpets. Our love toward our children is the love of human time, which iscreated by us. The man and the woman are separate components of humantime which, when they are united in the embrace of love, create itscontinuity. Love is the cosmic yearning that strives to ensure the continuityof human time. The main difference between man and woman is theirrelationship to time. A man accepts the judgment of time and casts hisfatalistic gaze to beyond the depth of death that awaits him. In hisresignation, from his beginning, to his end, a man knows that all he is givenis the ability to engrave his memory upon the straps of time. Not so awoman, for after the age of puberty, she is painfully aware of, and fears, thepassage of time and she strives to stop it and to restrain it forever at thepoint of the peak of her physical blossoming. Therefore the man is, bynature, a revolutionary and an innovator who gallops with time. Incontrast, the woman is, by nature, a force of conservativism, fearful ofinnovation and striving to curb and to stop the gallop of time.