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犹太人聪明的秘诀，在于其坚定的信念和对精神世界的执着追求。
犹太人千年来从未有过自己的国家，他们只能在他人（一般为基督教或伊斯兰教）的社会中作为了一个陌生人群体生活（他们又通常没被当地的旧思想与偏见影响，每种新潮流的出现往往都通过了没有包袱的犹太人扩散，所以很多旧权势认为他们都是些破坏者与阴谋家），这些地方的君主甚至群众可以随意的剥夺他们的财产或人身自由，对于相当多的犹太人来说自己身上唯一不能被别人拿走的资产只有知识。并且在犹太教与犹太人社区中会有祭司（博学者）这样子的神职存在，学习与获得知识不仅是走上社会阶梯、也是走上信仰阶梯的重要途径。
The secret of the Jews wise, is the firm belief and pursuit of the spiritual world of the persistent.
The Jews for thousands of years there has never been a country of their own, they can only in others (usually Christianity or Islam) society as a stranger group (they usually appear life is not old ideas and Prejudice local effects, each new trends are often passed without the burden of the Jews diffusion, so a lot of the old power that they are some of the vandals and schemers), these local monarch even the masses can be arbitrarily deprived of their property or personal freedom, for a considerable number of Jews themselves only can't be others take assets only knowledge. And in Judaism and Jewish community will be the priest (pundit) the existence of such sub clergy, learning and acquiring knowledge is not only an important way to go up the social ladder, but also go on the belief of the ladder. |