The idea that the Jews are the “Chosen People” is not particularly fashionable, even among many Jews. It’s viewed as sectarian, supremacist and even racist. Here are four ways that all of us, Jews and non-Jews, can embrace the idea.
The Jews are chosen to choose life
Near the end of the Torah in the 19th chapter of the book of Deuteronomy, our teacher Moses, in his final address, told us that we need to make a choice. Forty years beforehand, he led us out of slavery in Egypt, and we became a free people. He led us to Mount Sinai and gave us the Torah, and we became Bnei Chorin—a people with the freedom to choose. At the end of his life, Moses tells us what to choose: “With Heaven and Earth as witnesses, I have placed before you life and death, blessing and curse, and I call for you this day, to choose life.”
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