"For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." (Isaiah 62:1)

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Does size matter?

"And you must be, as Judith Plaskow writes, "standing again at Sinai." You have deep and resonating standing in the world -intellectually, morally and spiritually, because you stood at Sinai. Your power does not emanate from numbers, but from a special purpose. It is not the bulk of your size that will be influential, but rather, it is the ennoblement of your spirit; it's not the largeness of your census, but the largesse of your soul.

The writer Milton Himmelfarb once remarked, "The number of Jews in the world is smaller than a statistical error in the Chinese census. Yet we remain bigger than our numbers. Big things seem to happen around and to us."

Not bad for a people who are a statistical error. Indeed, sometimes numbers are just numbers — it's how and what you count that matters."

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://jewishworldreview.com/david/gutterman_size.php3

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