The Ashkenazi Revolution

17between him and his creator was like the relationship between a first bornbrother and a younger brother.In order to justify expressing its status as a quasi-god, the People of Israelis obligated to fulfill two conditions: Firstly, eternal life, for it is aconvincing proof of the status of quasi-god. Secondly, steady contact, faceto face, with the creator of the world, which proves that the friendlyconnection between the People of Israel and the creator of the world existsand is stable. Thus the conquest of time has, for the People of Israel,turned into a lofty strategic and tactical goal, that all efforts are directedtoward, and all attainments come to demonstrate its importance. Thesupremacy of the People of Israel over the gentiles, its influence over themand even its dominion over them, comes from its yearning to conquer thisgreat dimension to a greater degree than they yearn to conquer it. Thegentiles wish to conquer the various dimensions of space, but the People ofIsrael wish to conquer the dimension of time. Just as time rules over space,so too do the conquerors of time rule over the conquerors of space.5In its path to eternity, the People of Israel seeks to achieve the secondcondition, which guarantees it the status of quasi-god, the condition of asteady contact with the creator of the world in order to be face to face withHim. The People of Israel is a stiff-necked people, a burdensome people,according to the description of King Solomon. However, its God is alsonot an easy-going god but a jealous and vengeful one. Between these two,a constant legal struggle ensues, which is symbolized by the strugglebetween the angel and our Patriarch Jacob. Within this wrestling is hiddena realism that greatly exceeds the analogies of other faiths. As for theanalogies of heaven, which are found among other faiths, not only are theyill defined and not realistic, but they include degenerate enticements. Theheaven of Muhammad, which has an abundance of sexual pleasures, haslead to the descent and degeneration of the Muslim world. Theexaggerated idealism of Christianity was destined to bring about thedegeneracy of the Western world. In contrast to this, the struggle between