Berber Jews Summary

Question: Why should we keep the history of the Berber Jews with us?
When I was note taking, making my presentation, and writing out my note cards, I’d always thought I’d got my summary planned out. How wrong was I.
I’ve always considered answering questions like this easy for me, it needed little more research about life itself and a dose of reality to answer something like this, as I quote from my previous answer in MIT class:
“It is important that we maintain our history because we build onto what people have given us, if not we would never have a starting point for new ideas, and the day we forget where we’ve come from will be the day we fall apart”
Answering questions like these need a whole lot more than an opinion, they need fact. So here goes my best possible answer, I hope you like it:

The number of Berber Jews in Morocco have fell rapidly in the last hundreds of years, leaving only few to carry out their ancient traditions and keep passing on their stories, the rest of them are distant memories in history books, waiting to be forgotten. As time moves on it seems to be passing by faster and faster, and with new technology the turning point for our society, the worlds population seems to be more focused on moving forward than keeping to one success at a time. I don’t feel like we should rush moving on, because compared to what we have now, we’ve already lost so much past, holes in time lines that will never be filled. So why keep moving on even though we have everything we need right now? I can answer that: because we have to. But still, I know of no rule that necessity came with loss. Progress is important so we can do our bit to improve the world for the future generation, but I feel losing our ancestors and history in the process is a price that we should not be willing to pay. People who do not believe what I’m saying is right, I have no problem with. For they are the people who believe change is always the answer, and they hate it when they don’t get it. But when we’re all gone, and new people or species discover our past, I don’t want to be forgotten, I want to be remembered for my dedication to progress, and my memory for the ones who fell before me. And if we set this example, maybe they’ll want to do the same, and want to pass on this form of wisdom to the next people, and they might want to as well. History can be used to describe our past, but it can also describe how we benefit the ones who follow us.

By: Alice Marion Jiggins