Try this: make a list of countries that were established after WWII (there were many). Then make another list of things that countries are supposed to do — not like bringing the Mashiach, just country kinds of things like feeding their citizens. Then try to assess the success of these countries in doing those things. You’ll find one country that’s so far ahead of the others that even a Nobel Prize winning economist like Simon Kuznetz couldn’t explain it all. He suggested that the answer lies in an intangible that lies outside the intellectual debate. Which country do you think he was talking about? And which “intangible”?
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