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that is to say for the general good and for the good of
future generations. These types of questions distract
the mind of man from the essence of it all – from life of
the hour, which contains life eternal for insofar as life
of the hour is itself real life, it contains life eternal.*

The individual who seeks a new life for himself does not
seek it the heavens or in the air but rather in that same

life which he is trying to renew by way of the work he
does, by the conditions under which he lives and by the
struggle he undertakes to remove obstacles from his
path.

There are those who think that one who seeks to live
for the sake of life eternal has no need for life of the
hour. In their opinion, one who seeks to live for the
sake of life eternal is looked upon as a “sacrificial
lamb”* *, the atonement for the Jewish People. He
sacrifices his life in the here and now – hence he no
longer lives. This viewpoint appears to be heroic, yet in
truth it is passive. It exists by force of a decision made
in the past, but true strength is constant activism.

Few are those who actually seek out new life, more
than a few are “sacrificial offerings”, and many more
seek a new life in thought only.* New life requires
ongoing activism, for passivity will not bring the
renaissance of a people.

Those who wish to live a life for the sake of the eternal
are neither sacrificial lambs, nor an atonement for the