Читать книгу A Book of Jewish Thoughts - Various - Страница 9

Table of Contents

WE Jews have a more pressing responsibility for our lives and beliefs than perhaps any other religious community.

Don’t shelter yourself in any course of action by the idea that ‘it is my affair’. It is your affair, but it is also mine and the community’s. Nor can we neglect the world beyond. A fierce light beats upon the Jew. It is a grave responsibility this—to be a Jew; and you can’t escape from it, even if you choose to ignore it. Ethically or religiously, we Jews can be and do nothing light-heartedly. Ten bad Jews may help to damn us; ten good Jews may help to save us. Which minyan will you join?

C. G. MONTEFIORE, 1900.