ABSTRACT
The mission of Judaism was to upraise the whole of humanity as much as the individual human soul. From the womb of Judaism sprang Christianity, a faith whose founder, apostles and first believers were Jews, and whose foundations are so deeply imbedded in Judaism that the sacred Scriptures and prophets of the mother-religion are also the sacred Scriptures and prophets of its offspring. Judaism is thus indisputably acknowledged by its children, Christianity and Mohammedanism, the great monotheistic and world-conquering religions, as the channel through which flowed the word of the living God in order to empty itself into the sea of humanity. For religions like Christianity and Mohammedanism, each claiming to be the sole depository of truth, the course of history presents perplexing and inexplicable difficulties. If Mohammedanism can only bemoan the eclipse of its fortunes, Christianity cannot account for the insuperable check it received by the appearance and wonderful success of that rival religion.
