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A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Originally written as a gift to his children, the Chief Rabbi of Britain takes a definitive look at the changing face of Jewish identity and describes what it means to life a life of Torah in the new millennium.
Title of ebook: A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
ISBN: 9780743214964
parent-ISBN: 9780743201087
Publisher: Free Press
Pages: 256
Published: 11-2000
Released online for download: 11-20-2000
Author of eBook: Sacks, Jonathan

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A Letter in the Scroll

Understanding Ourjewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion

Chapter One

The Chosen People

One belief, more than any other (to quote a phrase of Isaiah Berlin's) is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals. It is the belief that those who do not share my faith - or my race or my ideology - do not share my humanity. At best they are second-class citizens. At worst they forfeit the sanctity of life itself. They are the unsaved, the unbelievers, the infidel, the unredeemed; they stand outside the circle of salvation. If faith is what makes us human, then those who do not share my faith are less than fully human. From this equation flowed the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the jihads, the pogroms, the blood of human sacrifice through the ages. From it - substituting race for faith - ultimately came the Holocaust.

One people risked its very existence on the proposition that our common humanity exists in and through our differences; that the human person itself, regardless of faith, independent of ra ... read full excerpt from: A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion ebook



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