Mysterium Judaicum
The distinction between problems and solutions has always meant a lot to me. After all, there is such a thing as a problem to which there is no solution, but mysteries are things ones lives in the presence of. . . . And one must remember when one talks of problems and solutions that some people once talked of the "final solution" of a particular problem . . . It's been very much the American way to, as we say, "face" problems, which means settle them and get on running things. But there are some questions which I would call mysteries, and one of the great purposes of life to spend one's life trying to enter more and more deeply into them. - George Grant, Canadian philosopher "Jewish problem" and "Jewish mystery" are two ways of speaking representing two different outlooks on the world. The first: modern, hubristic, worldly thinking. The second: ancient, reverential, mystical thinking. Nazism is exemplary of modern godlessness, the Babylon...