| As ogden ansh said: "how odd of God to choose the Jews". But that is our belief. And that belief is what underlies the impulse to resist assimilation, that we are a people apart, a light unto the nations. That imposes a burdern upon the Jewish People and it means we are not like other nations. That difference has nothing whatsoever to do with race or blood or tribe. it has to do with a moral stand, what French philosopher jacques maritain in his essay on the Jews, calls being the moral yeast of the world. So, yes, we will be judged differently because we claim to be different on it is that difference that makes us distince as a people, not national boundaries or nationalism. Evewn in the land that is closest to the hearts of Jews, our claim there is dependent upon moral conduct and how we treat the others in our midst. |
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