Literally 'The Generation of (the tower of) Babel' (Ancient Hebrew).

The people of the world showed much achdut, as Genesis 11 shows, but their cause was a bit misdirected. While they worked as a tzibur, they did so to become as G-d and were therefore punished by being diseminated into the seventy nations of the world with their many tongues.


Added: Mon, July 30 00:57 EST

Ideas concerning the Tower of Babel and the disemination of ideas in cultures is well expounded in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

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