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years pass and your constant gaze turns back. You think that everything goes too fast. I think you're wasting time on nonsense. I like to do something important, something worth while to have lived and suffered. You get the feeling that you were wrong constantly taking different decisions. More you look around you, in others' faults and virtues. You want to mourn over. You have more fears. I dread the future. Uncertainty excites you while you baffled. Curse certain facts. You hate many people. Want to many many others. Love and dream at a time ... ... but at the end of the day you're so exhausted you sleep you think will happen at dawn. Perhaps this is the last night of your life.

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--- History of the Jews (Epilogue) --- Paul Johnson

Taken from Paul Johnson, The history of the Jews (Vergara, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2005), pp. EPILOGUE

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In his Jewish Antiquities Josephus describes Abraham as "a very clever man" who had "some ideas about virtue higher than others of his contemporaries with ." Therefore "decided to completely change the views that they were all about God." One way to summarize four thousand years of Jewish history is to ask what would have been the fate of the human race if Abraham had not been a very wise man, or if I had stayed in Ur and retained by their superior ideas, and had not been a specifically Jewish people. Certainly not the Jews the world would have been a radically different. Humankind eventually would have come to discover all Jewish ideas, but we can not be sure it would have been well. All the great conceptual discoveries of the intellect seem obvious and inevitable once revealed, but it takes a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews have that gift. We owe the idea of \u200b\u200bequality before the law, both divine and human, of the sanctity of life and the human person, of individual consciousness and, therefore, of personal redemption, of the collective consciousness and, Therefore, the social responsibility of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, as well as many other aspects that constitute the basic moral framework of the human mind. Without the Jews, it could have been a much emptier place.

Above all, the Jews taught us how to rationalize the unknown. The result was monotheism and the three great religions that profess. Almost beyond our capacity to imagine what would have been the fate of the world if they never existed. Nor was the intellectual penetration into the unknown stop at the idea of \u200b\u200bone God. In fact, monotheism itself can be interpreted as a milestone on the path that leads people to ignore God completely. The Jews, first rationalized the pantheon of idols and became a Supreme Being, then began the process of removing God rationalizing. In the final perspective of history, Abraham and Moses may come to seem less important than Spinoza, as the influx of Jews to humanity has been protein. In ancient times were the great innovators of religion and morality. In the European Middle Ages people were still transmitting advanced knowledge and technology. Were gradually removed from the lead and fell behind, until the late eighteenth century were seen as a rearguard ragged and obscurantist in the march of civilized mankind. But then came a second explosion of amazing and creative ability. They left their ghettos, and again transformed human thought, this time in the secular sphere. Much of the mental framework of the modern world belongs to the Jews.

Jews were not only innovative. Also were examples and paradigms of the human condition. It seemed that showed clearly and unambiguously all the dilemmas inexorable man. Were "strangers and travelers" par excellence. But not all share this condition on this planet, where everyone just gives us a stay of seventy years? The Jews have been the emblem of humanity uprooted and vulnerable. But does the whole earth is more than a makeshift transit? The Jews have been fierce idealist who sought perfection, and yet fragile men and women who craved wealth and security. Would obey the law impossible to God, and also sought to preserve life. There is the dilemma of the Jewish communities of antiquity, who tried to combine the moral excellence of a theocracy with the practical requirements of a state capable of defending themselves. The dilemma has been repeated in our own time in the form of Israel, founded to carry out a humanitarian ideal, and has found in practice that needs to show ruthless to survive in the hostile world. But perhaps this is not a recurring problem that affects all human societies? We all want to build Jerusalem. It seems that the role of Jews is to focus and dramatize these common experiences of mankind, and turn your particular destination in a universal moral. But if Jews take on this role, Who they are assigned?

Historians should avoid seeking providential schemes in practice. It is too easy to find, as we are credulous creatures, born to believe and equipped with a powerful imagination that easily collects and organizes data to suit a transcendent plan either. However, excessive skepticism can cause a severe enough strain credulity. The historian must take into account all forms of the test, even those that are or appear to be metaphysical. If the earliest Jews were able to discuss with us the history of their offspring, they would find nothing surprising in it. They always knew that society Jews were destined to be the pilot of the entire human race. They seemed very natural that the dilemmas, the tragedies and disasters Jews were copies of exaggerated proportions. In the course of millennia, that trigger a hate Jews without equal, even inexplicable, it was unfortunate but expected. Above all, the Jews survived, when all other ancient peoples had changed or disappeared in the intricacies of the story was completely predictable. How could it be otherwise? Providence decreed it and the Jews obeyed. The historian can say there is nothing to what might be called providence. Maybe not. But human confidence in this historical dynamic, if sufficiently intense and tenacious, is itself a force that presses on the course of events and drives. The Jews have believed they were a special people, and have believed so unanimously and so passionately, and for such a long period, which have become just that. In fact, have played a role because they created for themselves. Maybe that's the point in its history.