The article focuses on the meaning of Tower of Babel in the Sefer Ma'aseh Hashem of Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi. It says that the meaning of the Tower narrative is to explain the etiology of linguistic diversity and etiological explanation of idolatry. It states that Ashkenazi offers various portrait of the Tower generation and he builds on opinion of Abraham Ibn Ezra that the single language of Tower people did not constitute a national language.