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The holy, in the Bible, simply means <\/span>God\u2019s domain<\/em> <\/span>\u2013 those points in time and space at which his presence is peculiarly visible. That is what Isaiah means when he says of Israel: \u2018You are my witnesses \u2013 declares the Lord \u2013 that I am God\u2019 (Is. 43: 10). It is also what Moses means in one of his closing addresses:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lord will establish you as His holy people, as He promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. <\/span>Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of God<\/em> <\/span>and they will fear you\u201d (Deut. 28: 9-10).<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no assertion in the Bible that the Israelites are inherently better or more moral than others. Their role confers on them no worldly privileges, only the religious life itself. Nor is there any implication that God is not accessible to others. On the contrary, he is the creator and sustainer of all. Job, the supreme example of a righteous man, is not a Jew. At his prayer at the dedication of the Temple, Solomon asks God to hear the prayers of \u2018the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel . . . so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel\u2019 (I Kings 8: 41-43). <\/span><\/p>\n

Israel is called on to be the opposite of a master-race, for it is a covenant into which one may convert, and not a race, neither is its goal to seek mastery over men but to become, instead, a servant of God. There is nothing in the particularism of Israel to contradict the universalism of the human condition as the image and likeness of God. <\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s role is to be an example: no more, no less. That is how Maimonides\u2019 son Abraham interprets, in his father\u2019s name, the phrase \u2018a kingdom of priests\u2019: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe priest of any congregation is its leader, its most honoured individual and the congregation\u2019s role model through whom they learn to follow in the right path. [In calling on Israel to be a \u2018kingdom of priests\u2019 it was as if God said to them], \u2018Become leaders of the world through keeping my Torah, so that your relationship to [humanity] becomes that of a priest to his congregation, so that the world follows in your path, imitates your deeds and walks in your ways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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From: <\/span>To Heal a Fractured World<\/span><\/i>, p.65-66<\/span><\/p>\n

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