The Ashkenazi Revolution

50to Zion that built that Second Temple. Things could have turned outdifferently. Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuzaradan did not destroy the entirepeople of Judah. The machinery of murder and destruction of Hitler wasmore elaborate than that of the king of Babylon, and nevertheless thereremained remnants all over the Mideastern lands and in Europe. Howmuch more so would there be remnants of the people of Judah afterNebuchadnezzar. These remnants, which drew their strength from the landand from the continuity of their stay there, were able to bring forth therenewal movement that laid the foundation for the era of the SecondTemple. But it was not so. The builders of the renewal specifically camefrom Babylon. The man of action and the mighty man of valor of that erawas was specifically Nechemiah Ben Hachaliah, who was rescued andcame from the capital Susa, and not one of the Jewish farmers andshepherds who remained in the land. This development proved that thestrength of time is greater than the strength of space, and the finaldominion, in the heart of the People of Israel, was the parameter of time.At the same time that Jews increased their recognition of time, the relativeimportance of the space of the land of Judah decreased. As the returneesconsolidated their efforts, the realization took hold among them that theattachment to space alone wasn’t enough, as control over it could onceagain be lost. Therefore it was preferable to establish more areas ofattachment, that is to say, the Diaspora. The entrenchment of the Jewishsettlement in Babylon, in which a great Jewish civilization sprouted, in facttook place at the same time as the laying of the foundation for independentexistence in Judah. The tendency to stress the parameter of timestrengthened, in the Jewish religion, the universalist quality that wasentrenched in it. These are the qualities that brought about, over time, thesprouting of Christianity and Islam, the vassal religions of Judaism.The feeling of the advantage of time over space, and the belief in theJewish ability to attach itself to numerous and great territories, as timeruled over space, gave birth to a decisive change in the linguistic approachof the Jews. The Hebrew language is noteworthy in the lofty religiousconcepts that are embedded in it, but other than that, it is a typical local