“The empty promises of progress were nothing but spit in the faces of martyrs of all generations. If time is just a form of perception, or a category of reason, then the past is as present as the present. Cain continues to murder Abel. Still Nebuchadnezzar slaughters Zedekiah's sons and gouges out Zedekiah's eyes. The Kesheniev pogrom never ends. Jews are constantly being burned in Auschwitz. Those who do not have the courage to end their existence have only one way out: to kill their consciousness, to paralyze their memory, to erase the last trace of hope.” (Isaac B. Singer)