Unto the generations

[...]Judaism, with its first commandment to "be fruitful and multiply," its anxiety about numbers and continuity, and its central prayer, the shema, commanding us to "teach these words to our children"-Judaism doesn't merely imply progeny. Jager ultimately abandons his religious orthodoxy as a sort of "reprimand to God." [...]perhaps the book is the author's stand-in creation, not a biological descendent but undoubtedly an instrument for passing on knowledge.