Where Have Greatness of Spirit and Nobility of Character Gone?

Looking back over history, until about two generations ago; there were moral giants in every generation, in the midst of every People.

They were, to be sure, the minority, but there were enough of them for their influence to be felt.

Humanity has lost not only its morally elevated, but the capacity to appreciate moral elevation and internalize the spirit of it.

I look about me and see a world virtually devoid of such greats of character and the few, very, very few who do exist exert no influence in raising the general population out of the muck and morass.

Something changed after the Holocaust, something terrible. Not only were the wise in the House of Israel taken from us, the eyes of the world at large were closed to the exalted, to the wondrous - as though that was humanity's collective punishment for allowing a horror of such imaginable proportions to occur.

I don't think that humanity is even aware to what extent they were degraded by having allowed something so barbarous to occur in their midst. Not only were we stripped of our former capacity for greatness, we have no desire for such greatness and consider the very idea something to smirk at and mock.

God is kind. Would that we, as a species, appreciated the low to which we have been reduced; we would, all of us, mourn all the day long - as do the very few within whom the barest realization of that former glory still resides.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com