As Leo Strauss said: “The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption. The greatest expression of this, surpassing everything that any present-day man could write, is that great Jewish prayer, which will be known to some of you and which is a stumbling block to many, Aleinu leshnbeia It would be absolutely improper for me to read it now.”
“Why We Remain Jews”, pg 327, Jewish philosophy and the crisis of modernity : essays and lectures in modem Jewish thought by Leo Strauss ; edited with an introduction by Kenneth Hart Green. 1997, State University of New York Press, Albany
