The Ashkenazi Revolution

19particular to a degree that is not found among any other people, about thepurity and stability of family life. For the necessity of maintaining theinternal unity, within the Jewish camp, distinctive rules come into play toprotect social justice. But it was only the tactical quality of Jewish moralitybrought this great success. For morality is not a dimension, but a veryunclear domain, which experiences constant changes here and there. Thosewho support morality in its own right, who wish to preserve it in its purityfor humanity in general, have succeeded only in the initial preaching stage.However, in its practical stages, they have been revealed as either lackingability or as tainted. The attempts of the followers of Ahad ha’Am toreconcile the contradiction between their own faith and the fashion inwhich the State of Israel was founded, are ridiculous attempts. Jewishgenius goes in a different direction. It harnessed morality for the task ofconquering a dimension – the dimension of eternity, and for this it putmorality to a practical test. It drew from morality whatever could be usedfor the physical benefit of man’s life, and it rejected, from it, that whichcould not bring such benefit.7What is the origin of the People of Israel? Is this origin of space or time?History answers this question clearly. The origin of the Jews is not ofspace at all, but of time. For all their enthusiasm is attached to it, and in itthey demand the maximum. The land of Canaan came to serve as anearthly base for the war for eternity. It is not the origin but the main earthlybridge to conquer the eternity of time. The Land of Israel is the ideal placefor the unification, face to face, between the People of Israel and its God.But when God revealed Himself face to face to the great ones of Israel, itwas not necessarily in the Land of Israel. He spoke with Abraham in Haranand to Moses in Egypt and in the wilderness of Sinai. For the God of Israelis found wherever time is found. The Land of Israel is, therefore, only aportion of the goal to unify with the Creator face to face. Furthermore:The Land of Israel is the destination that the People of Israel long for in itsstruggle with its God, and it is a playing card in the hand of the God ofIsrael in the tiresome, and ongoing, litigation between Him and the