We need to relearn what it means to be Jewish!
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
“Being Jewish” is something extraordinary and unparalleled. However, it is also very difficult and carries a huge responsibility.
Our people have been going through a constant purification process from the very beginning, sometimes in a very dramatic and heartbreaking way, especially when we turn against each other and end up losing our brethren who turn against their fellow Jews.
Still, we can see the same process repeating again and again.
The difficulty of “Being Jewish” and the easy and shining attraction of “becoming like others” is too hard to resist for many.
This is especially true in America, where the overwhelming brainwashing to follow the “Western, individualistic and consumerist” lifestyle, which promises so much but takes away everything sucks people away from their traditions.
We need to renew a proper “Jewish national education” that can remind people what it means to be Jewish (not necessarily Orthodox religious but Jewish according to original Judaism) and what our crucial, obligatory, and irreplaceable responsibility and role is towards humanity.
We are the only people with the method that can facilitate inherently and 100% egoistic, selfish, and individualistic people to coexist and cooperate in a mutually responsible and mutually complementing way, above and against that inherent nature.
We are the only people who can neutralize and cover instinctive “unfounded hatred” with acquired “brotherly love.”