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<div>4:6 So keep [it] and carry [it] out; for that is your wisdom and your understanding<br>
before the eyes of the nations, who will hear all these statutes and will say: So it is, indeed,<br>
a wise and understanding nation, this great people!</div>
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<div>Many are the arts and sciences that are the heritage of other civilized<br>
nations, whereas the Jewish art and science is the art and science of building<br>
up all of personal and national life on the dual basis of awareness of<br>
God and duty to one’s fellow men. This is the art and science of the knowledge<br>
and actualization of the Torah, the art and science of truth and of<br>
harmony in life.</div>
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<div>Your knowledge and art of living will be regarded by the<br>
other nations as your distinguishing feature. You will be living proof of<br>
the words of the ancient seer:<span class="co_VerseText"> <span class="co_VerseText">
<span class="co_VerseNum"></span><span class="co_VerseText">יַ֤</span>פְתְּ אֱלֹהִים֙ לְיֶ֔פֶת וְיִשְׁכֹּ֖ן בְּאָֽהֳלֵי־שֵׁ֑ם :</span>
</span>(Bereshis 9:27).<br>
The art of beauty appealing to the senses is the heritage of other nations,<br>
but the art of building tents, cities, states in which God dwells will be<br>
found only among the descendants of Shem. Hence, if you will devote</div>
<div>yourselves to the knowledge and practice of the Torah, and live this way<br>
before the eyes of the nations, your whole life will be a campaign for the<br>
establishment of God’s kingdom on earth, built upon allegiance to God’s<br>
Torah.</div>
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<div>Other nations incessantly seek the standard of political wisdom that<br>
would fit constantly changing conditions. However, the laws they create<br>
are the product of human thought, which is shortsighted and perceives<br>
only the superficial nature of things; hence, their laws are in a constant<br>
state of flux, and what today is proclaimed as truth and justice is buried<br>
tomorrow as pernicious folly.</div>
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Only the Jewish people has an eternal standard of duty for the whole<br>
being and will of private and public life. With firm trust the Jewish people<br>
subordinates to this standard the personal and national life of all times,<br>
confident that through this subordination to God’s Torah it becomes<br>
master of its own fate.</div>
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Like its Torah, its history, too, is given and set in advance. An entire<br>
nation, including all its generations, devotes itself to the knowledge and<br>
practice of the Law, and by virtue of this devotion Israel is a great nation<br>
in the eyes of the nations. They hear of all these laws that shape Jewish<br>
personal and national life, and acknowledge that this great nation is a<br>
national society full of wisdom and insight!</div>
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