The Ashkenazi Revolution

293all attention to specific portions of space, which in itself is only a lowlyvassal of time, fosters limited people who cannot function within thedivided and complicated entirety of human life. The youngest generationof humanity rules over space but lacks useful tools to rule, psychologically,over time. This generation is full of fears of the future, which collapse hisself-esteem and bring about processes of personal deterioration andoutbursts due to hatred.For the price of all this destruction, science grants us the chance to conquerthe heavenly bodies? But who needs outer space? What shall we do with iteven if we conquer it? Religious stirring at the sight of the heavens, astirring that arises within us in one moment, has more content, and moretruth, than tens of thousands of studies written about outer space. Thisstirring expresses the wonder of outer space more than a huge pile of finedetails. The Torah is not only the most important religious book in theworld, but also the greatest science book, because it teaches that time ispreferable to space, and that the basis of the world is time, which continuesfrom one end of the world to the other. This scientific truth of the Torahsurpasses all other scientific discoveries. The two most important values inthe world are cosmic time and human time, which gazes upon cosmic timeand understands it. The great spaces, that do not understand themselves,are of inferior value. Religion combines these two times, cosmic andhuman, and upon the thread that combines them stand language, ethics, andhuman desire. The raising of one successful family is a thousand timesmore important than the conquest of the moon. The healthful life of Man,and the flowing forth of human happiness, take place within the cycle ofhuman time. Families are created within this cycle; peoples arise thatcreate religious values, faiths and literature, and history is written. For timeis the basis of the world, for the world is not primarily space but time, andall that exists in the world is created from time and within time.-end-