So may God give you from the dew of the heavens, from the fat of the earth . . You will live by your sword, you will serve your brother. The Holy One is forebearing, but eventually he collects his debts.
History is in perpetuum mobile .
It turns to the past, but it faces the future. It is concerned not only with the event, but also with its meaning, here and now. History is, first of all, the history of Toledoth of begettings and this is what we can learn from the passages of the Torah. Its opening passages set the direction in which history will evolve history which began with our father Avraham. Before the Torah could begin to deal with the begettings of Yitzhak, it was necessary to emphasize that Yitzhak is a begetting of Avraham.