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)