Jewish exclusivity in our time
Jewish exclusivity (giving commandments specifically to Jews) can be explained conceptually if we are a kind of engine of influence towards the Gentiles (light to the Gentiles).
It is accepted that universal morality originates in Judaism/Christianity. In other words, today this task has already been "completed" and today there is nothing "Jewish" about being moral. Our uniqueness today is only in the halakhic category, which, as you claim, is a category orthogonal to morality, but gentiles do not belong in it.
So what is the meaning of Jewish exclusivity today? Is there no longer a goal to be a light to the nations in some way?
1. Why do you think that exclusivity is only possible assuming outward influence? Isn't it possible to simply have a difference in roles?
2. In our world, it suddenly seems that we actually have a leading role. Go out and see that all the madmen of progress and the Western vacuum that is defeated by Muslim fundamentalism are anti-Semites and anti-Israel. We have become, of necessity, the leading focus against this global madness.
3. Beyond that, I have often written that exclusivity can only be for our internal need and not a real claim. Every religion builds a thesis that is exclusive and upon which the world is built.
1. It is possible, but somewhat unlikely in my opinion, that a separate group would notice without any special reason and with no intention of influencing humanity as a whole.
2. I don't think we are a locomotive in the fight against this Western madness. There are countries much less Western than us that are fighting it just as well. In any case, this madness is not a religious war. There is no divine plan here, is there?
3. Christianity and Islam, for example, do not need explanations on this subject because they are inclusive. You need an explanation outside of religion (in the narrow sense) to reconcile
"Every religion constructs a message that is exclusive and upon which the world is built." What is a message construct? (Perhaps "conveys a message"?)
1. Remove the priests. They have different goals than the Israelites, but it's not necessarily because they influence us. So we are the priests of the world. What's the problem with that?
2. I think we are Qatar, since there is no country that is at the center of this struggle. There are groups that are fighting it (better than us), and yet if you look for a criterion I think you will find that support or opposition to Israel is a good criterion that distinguishes between these groups (of course Islam itself does not identify with progressivism, but it was built on it and supported by it. Fundamentalist Christianity does, but it is not a country but a group). But that is really a side note.
By the way, in terms of the morality of war in the Western world, I think Israel is leading a different line from the conventional one, and I think it is a struggle over a moral concept of fighting evil. Here too, there is definitely a moral concept leading.
3. I didn't understand the comment. Christianity and Islam completely see themselves as the one and only truth upon which the world is built. The fact that they want to include all the world's people in it is another matter, which perhaps even emphasizes their being so.
Typing errors on the phone. C.L.: "You get built from it."
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