All in all, I believe that if I ever meet one of my forebears, one of those pale, skinny yeshiva students from the eastern European shtetl of 1897, I will be able to say to him, I, too, am a Jew--not a saint, but a Jew like you.
My forebears are Jews from eastern Europe.
They don't go forward unless they have the design and manufacturing knowledge that they need to know to make good decisions.