[Avodah] The Jew in Golus

[Prof. L. Levine]

The following is from Rav Schwab on Chumash page 537.

The Rav would elaborate on the fate of the Jew in galus who dwells
among non-Jews, yet lives a totally Jewish life. Our forefather Yaakov
blessed his grandchildren, Ephraim and Menashe, saying (Bereishis
48:16), And, like fish, may they grow to a multitude in
the midst of the world. The Rav would cite Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch,
who comments that fish live in a different element, quietly, at a depth
unreachable by the human eye. People standing on the shore have no
idea of the happy, fresh, undisturbed life that goes on down below in
rich abundance from generation to generation. Similarly,-in
the midst of the world the generations of Yaakov are to live and achieve
their own quiet, happy lives in their own separate element, of which the world around them has no conception, -like fish in water, in the midst of human beings on earth shall they dwell (Targum Onkelos).

Professor Yitzchok Levine
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