“ ‘N ot with armies and not with might but with My spirit’ says Hashem.” (Zecharyah 4:6 Haftarah Shabbos Chanukah)
Mark Twain probably said it best:
“…He [the Jew] has made a marvelous fight in this world in all ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind… [H]is commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names… are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers…. The Egyptians the Babylonians and the Persians filled the planet with sound and splendor then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed and made a vast noise and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time but it burned out and they sit in twilight now or have vanished.
“The Jew saw them all beat them all and is now what he always was…. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass but he remains.
“What is the secret of his immortality?” Harper’s Magazine September 1899
