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Jews, even if – as in the following extreme example – in order to purify the traces of
holiness trapped among the gentile nation of Poland – the Poles’ ancillary role is to
kill the Jews “by the sword,” since the Jews’ historical role is to sanctify God’s name
by dying a martyr’s death.
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Only within this limited scope can the gentile nations be
considered Israel’s partners in the redemption.
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The gentiles are ontologically different from the Jews: they do not possess
the divine soul but only the baser animal soul, which stems from the three wholly
impure husks. The Jews, on the other hand, possess not only the refine divine soul
but also a superior animal soul originating in the husk of
nogah
, in which good and
evil are mixed.
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Moreover, in contrast to the gentiles, who even when they do good,
do it only for their own benefit,
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the Jews are characterised by their capacity for
self-nullification; the very name
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