At times of crisis throughout its history, the Jewish people has faced the question of its own guilt. Our most important prayer says, “We were expelled from our country because of our sins” ... Jewry bears a great guilt because it failed to heed Theodor Herzl’s call ... Because the Jews did not display their Jewishness with pride, because they wanted to shirk the Jewish question, they must share the blame for the degradation of Jewry.