The Protagonist of a Jewish themed short story

• A young Jewish man based on me in my more confused days.
• Wants to escape the present for such factors as:
• Existential angst (doesn't see a point in his own time)
• Politically disenfranchised.
• Running from his Jewish identity (rejected everything because of his overbearing father but went too far)
• The future of Israel (grim) hits him hard when he sees it and he goes back to his roots to repent.
• The assimilation of humanity in general into a collective digital consciousness can be described using the example of Jewish assimilation.
• Greatest threat to existence for Jews and humans in general to lose their essential identity.
• Jews who reject or restrict the use - the observant traditionalists are the ones who retain the greatest humanity. They pray for the rest.
• While the majority of humans who acknowledge that this is a stage of evolution take for granted that they are becoming superior beings (angelic?), those who reject the leap forward in evolution regard them as diminished, fallen.
• They believe that humanity reached its peak (some say with the Jews, because they were the chosen people.)
• They are living through the decline of humanity.
• Integration diminishes or locks up the soul.
  
• Could be a back story that either flashes to or references Old Testament stories, where the voice of God in people's heads guided their actions and enhanced their perception of the world the way the Chips do in the future. But while one elevates man to the next stage - a prophet - the other diminishes him to an automaton (angel - in that they do not have free will).
• Has time itself reached its peak and now history is repeating itself in reverse? While they think that they have jumped forward in time, the entire dimension has changed its vector (at least metaphorically).
• "In the particle accelerator of life and its various physical and metaphysical forces, humanity has bubbled up in tiny violent and brilliant fleeting instants in the collision between chaotic animal cruelty and perfect orderly collectivity.
• Individual humans are becoming a single omnipotent being. (The Messiah? God?)
• The elite who create the programs are the brain.