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The danger in counting Jews is that if they believed, for a moment, that there is strength in numbers, they would long ago have given way to despair. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How then do you estimate the strength of the Jewish people? To this the Hebrew Bible gives an answer of surpassing beauty. <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask Jews to give, and then count their contributions<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Numerically, Jewry is small, but in terms of its contributions to civilization, it is vast. Somehow this small people produced an unceasing flow of patriarchs, priests, poets and prophets, masters of halakhah and aggadah, codifiers and commentators, philosophers and mystics, sages and saints. It was not once that the Jewish imagination caught fire, but in century after century, sometimes under the worst persecution known to any nation on earth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to know the strength of the Jewish people, ask them to give, and then count the contributions. To win the Jewish battle, the battle of the spirit, the victory of heart, mind and soul, you do not need numbers. 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