concludes that all is lost. Everything has crossed over into dissolution. But that is not true. Let us renounce the twentieth century’s false hold on our imaginations. The decades of catastrophe between 1914 and 1945 were not able to destroy everything worth sustaining. Monstrous men perpetrated great evils. Many were killed. But they failed to destroy the living practice of Torah. The synagogue endures. What began with Abraham continues. And because God’s chosen people did not cross the line, the last century failed to sever the nerve of Western culture. Let us reckon with this profound truth
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