the question has been asked, why are there so many Jewish exceptional people? – In a book called “The Israel Test” by George Gilder, he writes, 35% of scientific breakthroughs are made by Jews, 25% of great companies, I believe it’s about 25% of noble prizes and this is from .2% of the world’s general population – There may be many answers but here is the point I would like to highlight – I believe that high expectations play an important role – today we are abusing our children by expecting them to have girlfriends and teenage sex, experiment with drugs – the very fact that we don’t expect them not to! that we don’t have high expectations, that they will be role-models of integrity, goodness and kindness, already means we expect them just to be a human animal – in fact, it is an absolute marvel that the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a Rabbi from Russia took a shattered movement and began preaching to maybe fifty people in the early 1950s and this little synagogue has turned into the most potent force in the Jewish world, incomparably stronger than any other force – I believe again, the Rebbe saw our potential – he placed exceptionally altruistic expectations – and children naturally being altruistic, jumped at it