The main reason why Jews can lead coquettish in the world is that they have outstanding cultural literacy and spiritual background. And its foundation is to respect knowledge, be eager to learn, attach importance to education and advocate knowledge.
In the eyes of Jews, learning knowledge is the sweetest.
In the Jewish tradition, when children enter the classroom for the first time, they should put on new clothes and be brought to the classroom by priests or learned people. There, every child can get a clean slate with Hebrew letters and simple Bible sentences written in honey. The children licked the honey off the slate while reading the letter. Later, the rabbis will give them honey cakes, apples and walnuts. All this is to make them understand that learning knowledge is sweet. From this formal ceremony, we can get a glimpse of the Jewish attitude towards learning.
Learning knowledge is very valuable. In the Talmud, there is such a passage:
Learning makes people rigorous, rigor makes people enthusiastic, enthusiasm makes people clean, cleanliness makes people restrained, restraint makes people pure, purity makes people sacred, holiness makes people humble, humility makes people fear evil, fear evil makes people holy, holiness makes people have a sacred soul, and sacred soul makes people live forever.
In Israel, there was once a man whose son had no interest in learning. His teacher finally had to give up his efforts and only taught him the book Genesis. Later, the enemy attacked the city where they lived, caught the boy and imprisoned him in a distant city.
It happened that Caesar came to the city where the boy was imprisoned and inspected the prison where the boy was imprisoned. Caesar asked to read books in prison and found a book he didn't know how to read.
"This may be a Jewish book," he said. "Will anyone here read this book?"
"Yes," replied the warden, "I will bring him to see you."
The warden called the boy and said, "If you can't read this book, the king will want your head." . If you die in the prison here, it's better than being beheaded by the king. "
"My father only taught me to read one book." The boy replied.
The warden took the boy out of the prison, dressed him and brought him to Caesar. The emperor put the book in front of the boy, and the young people began to read, from "At first, God created heaven and earth" to "This is the history of heaven."
Caesar listened to the boy and said, "This is obviously a god. The holy God opened his world to me just to let the boy return to his father. " So Caesar gave the boy gold and silver and sent two soldiers to escort the boy back to his father.
After hearing the story, the saints said, "Although the boy's father only taught him to read the only book, blessed God rewarded him.". Then, think about it, if a person takes pains to teach his children the Bible, Messina and The Biography of Saints, how much he will get paid! "
Because of this, Jews believe that no one is poor unless he has no knowledge. He who has knowledge has everything. For Jews, rabbis may ask, "If a person has no knowledge, what can he have?" ? What can a person lack once he has knowledge? What can a person have without reading and knowledge? "