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The following is from Rav Schwab on Chumash page 537.</div>
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The Rav would elaborate on the fate of the Jew in galus who dwells
<div>among non-Jews, yet lives a totally Jewish life. Our forefather Yaakov</div>
<div>blessed his grandchildren, Ephraim and Menashe, saying (Bereishis</div>
<div>48:16), And, like fish, may they grow to a multitude in</div>
<div>the midst of the world. The Rav would cite Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch,</div>
<div>who comments that fish live in a different element, quietly, at a depth</div>
<div>unreachable by the human eye. People standing on the shore have no</div>
<div>idea of the happy, fresh, undisturbed life that goes on down below in</div>
<div>rich abundance from generation to generation. Similarly,-in</div>
<div>the midst of the world the generations of Yaakov are to live and achieve</div>
<div>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).</div>
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<div>Professor Yitzchok Levine<br>
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