chosenness

He rejected the notion of chosenness for the Jewish people, either religious or secular.

Despite these complications, many groups still find "chosenness" irresistible.

Reform Judaism views the concept of chosenness in this way:

This rejection of chosenness is made explicit in the movement's siddurim (prayer books).

Only they were entrusted with working with fire - a sacred symbol of chosenness.

She thus rejects idea of chosenness as unethical.

Chosenness ranks lowest on the scale because it is conditional: the God who chooses can also reject.

"Why are we so mesmerized by Jews, by the topic of Jewish chosenness?"

Sternhell says the people of the Second Aliyah had a sense of chosenness among them.

This worldview encompasses shared convictions of moral superiority, chosenness, entitlement and special destiny.

Reconstructionist Judaism rejects even this variant of chosenness as morally defunct.

Reconstructionist Judaism rejects the concept of chosenness.

One Jewish critic of chosenness was the philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

In the Jewish prayerbook (the Siddur), chosenness is referred to in a number of ways.

Emet V'Emunah describes the chosenness of the Jewish people.

Not satisfied with criticism, however, Wyschogrod offered a traditional explanation of the Jewish claim to uniqueness and chosenness formulated in positive terms.

Mr. Reagan saw the United States as confronted by evil, "whereby the nation's chosenness stood over against the powers of darkness."

Rather, God may be an all-powerful enemy of the Jewish people, who has damned them to an eternal "Chosenness" of suffering.

While Benamozegh believed in the unique spiritual mission of the Jews, his idea of Jewish chosenness was far from narrow particularism.

Reconstructionist author Judith Plaskow also criticises the idea of chosenness, for many of the same reasons as Falk.

In Judaism, chosenness is the belief that the Jews are a Chosen People to be in a covenant with God.

Then, after a quick tour through chosenness as a concept in rabbinic Judaism (and the lack thereof in the Haskalah), it´s on to Zionism.

It is the conviction of chosenness that has kept the Jews going, and thereby kept them in a state of tension with the other peoples of the earth.

It states that the idea of chosenness is "morally untenable", because anyone who has such beliefs "implies the superiority of the elect community and the rejection of others."

Crucial to the Jewish notion of chosenness is that it creates obligations exclusive to Jews, while non-Jews receive from God other covenants and other responsibilities.