However, he was responsible for saving the lives of over 1200 Jews. Yet this man was responsible for the destruction of million of innocents. The Jewish message that people should be judged by their contribution to society rather than the content of their character is gaining ground and is the perfect spiritual message for today's generation of self-centered people who still have a social conscience. There are more broken relationships and more loneliness then ever before. Divorce in the United States has reached 63 percent of all marriages since 1980.
People work harder than ever before and neglect their spouses and children in the process.
They have better relationships with their laptops than they do with their loved ones. The Jewish emphasis on family, community, respect for parents, and regularly celebrating festivals together is a wholesome remedy. We see more and more nations aping the Jewish model of community. Witness the fact that the Dalai Lama consulted a group of Jewish spiritual leaders about how to preserve the integrity of his spiritual community in the absence of a national homeland, an encounter immortalized in the book The Jew in the Lotus. Embraced by gurus of the popular culture including Madonna and Sandra Bernhard, the Kabballah, which explores the mystical side of Judaism, teaches us to embrace little sparks of everyday experience and the seemingly insignificant moments.