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?
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1. It is possible, but a bit unlikely in my opinion, that a separate group would notice without a special reason and not with the aim of influencing humanity as a whole
2. I don't think we are Qatar in the fight against this Western madness. There are countries much less Western than us that are fighting it no less well. In any case, this is not a religious war in this madness. 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) here to reconcile
“Every religion constructs a message that is exclusive and on which the world is built”. What is a construct? (Maybe “conveys a message”?)
1. Remove the priests. They have different goals than the Israelis, 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 this is really a side note.
By the way, in terms of the morality of war in the Western world, even there, in my opinion, Israel is leading a different line from the accepted one, and even there, in my opinion, it is a struggle for a moral perception of fighting evil. Here too, there is definitely a lead of a moral perception.
3. I did not understand the comment. Christianity and Islam completely see themselves as the only and exclusive truth on which the world is built. The fact that they want to include everyone in the world is another matter, which perhaps even makes them more so.
Typing errors on the phone. Photo: "You build from this".
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