Seize the Day is a novella in which the protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, goes through coflicts of three identifiable values and finally accepts one, the Jewish tradition. He has failed in his pursuit of American Dream in Hollywood and the Rozax company and is hard pressed financially. To overcome this dilemma he asks his father for help. But his father, strict to the Protestant Work Ethic, denies him any financial or spiritual help. Through the suffering imposed by his failure and his father`s denial, and with the help of kind concern and advice of Dr. Tamkin acting as a spiritual father, Wilhelm begins to achieve a Jewish understanding of his suffering and his identity. Wilhelm`s new vision of himself and man conforms to the Jewish image of man deriving from the essence of Judaism. This new consciousness gradually takes control of Wilhelm, expressing itself in sudden epiphanies. In the crowd of a Broadway tunnel he suddenly feels a general love for all the imperfect people and accepts them as his "brothers and sisters." The second and last epiphany comes when he is pushed into a synagogue where a burial ceremony was in process. Faced with the death, the last and fatal human suffering, he bursts into heartfelt tears, sinking "toward the consummation of the heart`s ultimate need." Here he deeply feels the human bond and brotherhood of all mankind, which is the essence of Judaic image of man, the diachronically and sychronically related human being. The final resolution scene is a representation of "death by drowning," a return to Jewish identity, a conversion to the Jewish Almighty-Father. So the last phrase of the work. "the heart`s ultimate need," implies a wish to return to the pure "heart" which is regarded by Jews as the home of divinity, the source of human conscience, shared by all human beings. This impressive last scene, therefore, represents Bellow`s appeal to Jews and Gentiles alike to return and listen to their `conscience` deep in the heart.