GEN1265 The great problem for the Jew wherever he lives, but especially in the State of Israel, is to restore life to its pristine glory, by being a gate of opportunity and a school of character formation. A greater truth has not been vouchsafed to mankind than the vision Jacob beheld in his dream when, a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, sleeping under the starry sky of an Eastern night, with stones as his pillow and the ground as his bed, he saw a ladder standing on the earth, its topmost rung reaching heaven wards and from which the Voice of God was heard [this verse]. Jewish Ethics are ladders on which man can rise from rung to rung, outsoaring the shadows of his own imperfections, enabled to bask in his momentous potentialities towards progress and the achievement of immortality. In short, its complete ascent helps man to become a real “son of God”.  LEHRMAN 30-1