Tikkun Olam: A Jewish Approach for Redeeming the World by Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez

Author:Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Yaron Publishing
Published: 2018-07-02T22:00:00+00:00

chapter 3

Abraham Encounters God

God’s interaction with Abraham and then with Israel opens a new chapter in human history. Abraham was called out of the land of Ur, out of idolatry.[27] Concerning Abraham, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch commented,

“When in the choice of Abraham, the foundation of this people was laid, God. Who did it, pronounced its significance: ‘and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.’…For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment.” [Gen 18:18]…As the priest among the people, so should they among humanity uphold the vision of God and humanity and by so doing be a holy nation, raised above every injustice, profaneness, and hard-heartedness, as becomes the bearers of such a message…that the whole of humanity, awakened by its own experience, enlightened anew and uplifted by our destiny and life, should, in unity with us, turn to the One and Only- and if thus we would fulfill our vocation as priests to humanity – what bliss there would be…”[28]

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