Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.
Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story.
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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