Poets use analogy, metaphor, and symbolism to paint history. Here, the ledger speaks for itself. Across 5226-years of written history, meaning and language always arrive late. Like humans, the things we build come with a factor: mortality. Global interdependence is by design — that design is not ours.
“Master of the Universe, this is Torah and this is its reward?” —Moses (Menachot 29b)