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be controlled like robots.

They, like Balaam, think that sameness in a nation is strength. It only looks like strength when you see millions of identically dressed, identically chanting, identically thinking people. When you see that you think you are seeing a strong nation. They don't understand that this is only appearance.

Real strength abides is faith and only a person thinking for himself attains faith.

Nations who see strength in sameness will never understand Israel and will always see the faith of the Jews as a threat. Strength in uniqueness confuses them and leads them to, foolishly hate the Jews and turn them into outcasts.

Being an outcast in a strange land Jewish faith is tested. Even if he tries to forsake the Jewish People, the persecution he suffers because of his uniqueness brings him back to Judaism.

Instead of assimilating he becomes more Jewish.

Uniqueness thrives in a populous world. Its very nature makes it strive for density of population and so becomes an instrument of procreation beckoning to faith.

Faith is the ideal of the unique man. The more populated the world the greater the uniqueness of the single individual and the stronger his faith.
Uniqueness is only apparent in world full of other unique people.

Without uniqueness we'd become sterile.

Man needs the presence of other human beings so that he can be unique among them. Each nation needs the presence of other nations to highlight their uniqueness.

Communicating our unique ideas and customs to other human beings is the only way an individual or a nation can really experience his uniqueness.

Man, in his uniqueness, was created alone. No matter how much he will come close to another human being there will always be times when he will feel alone.

When I feel you and you feel me I become unique and we cause each other to feel unique. If I lived isolated from other human beings it would be impossible for me to be aware of my uniqueness.

Therefore every man and every nation needs a loving relationship with all other men and all other nations.

Only by loving all men can a man be happy while being unique and alone.

Feeling unique is vital to man's existence. This is the basic principle of faith in Judaism.

When man feels ordinary, just another number among the innumerable number of objects in the world, he feels disposable because he is disposable.

He feels that his existence isn't noticed by anybody. He feels that his existence isn't important to the smooth functioning of the world. Yet if a man feels unique then he's an essential part of the world. He feels that he's been put on earth for a purpose and that he should devote his life to fulfilling that purpose.

When you feel unique you are capable of carrying out the most important task on earth. That task is to make others feel unique. You can love other people and so make them feel unique. You give uniqueness when you love someone.

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