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After Babel, the Torah focuses its attention not on humanity as a whole (whose covenant is never revoked) but on one person and a single family that eventually becomes a tribe, then a collection of tribes, then a nation. God\u2019s call to Abram is, among other things, a call to <\/em><\/span>be different<\/span><\/em>. He is to uproot himself from all the normal bases of identity (parents, birthplace, land). He and his descendants will be unique. They will become the only nation whose identity is founded not on \u201cnatural\u201d factors but on a specific covenant with God. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first sign of that covenant is circumcision. Later, with the exodus and the revelation at Sinai, Israel will become the people whose way of life and historical destiny testify to the presence of God in their midst. As opposed to the nations and empires of the ancient world, their identity will not be \u201corganic\u201d or \u201ccosmological\u201d but covenantal. They are called on to be different:<\/span><\/p>\n

You shall be holy to Me, for I, God, am holy, and I have separated you out from among the nations to be Mine. (Leviticus 20:26.) <\/span><\/p>\n

Now if you obey Me and keep My covenant, you shall be My special treasure among all the nations, even though all the world is Mine. You will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation to Me. (Exodus 19:5-6.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not follow the ways of Egypt where you once lived, nor of Canaan, where I will be bringing you. Do not follow their customs. (Leviticus 18:3.)<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a Jew is to be called on to be apart from, yet a part of, society as a whole, to contribute to its welfare while being faithful to the distinctive covenant of Jewish identity and singularity \u2013 to be a \u201ccountervoice in the conversation of mankind\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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