The Eternal Dissent: A Search for Meaning in Jewish History

This book is an intelligent quest for the essential meaning of Jewish history. It seeks an answer to why Israel has survived through 4000 years when all other nations and civilizations have been subject to an inescapable decline and fall. In addition, The Internal Descent asks why Israel has been beset by recurrent disasters and what soon provoked Hitler's tragic slaughter of six-million European Jews? Rabbi Polish skillfully answers these questions tormenting the be Willard Jewish soul which rebels and cries for justice of its God. This book offers a brilliant evaluation of the destiny of the state of Israel; the spiritual need for the Diaspora; the concept of chosen this. This is not another chauvinistic approach to the theory of selection, but an objective, clear-sighted recognition of the duties which the Covenant has imposed upon Israel - of the obligations which, if unfulfilled, can lead to the revocation of the Covenant between Israel and God. Within these pages, David Polish has formulated a healthy, sorely needed, realistic approach to Israel and Zionism and has recorded for mankind the way to ascendancy, to endurance, to the possibility of an ultimate Christian-Jewish reconciliation. The Eternal Descent is a stirring, hope-inspiring interpretation of Jewish history that should be read by men of good will everywhere. --- from book's dustjacket