cramming and chosen-ness
Hey world, just thought I would check in. So I am cramming trying to get ready for finals and papers and all the other things I need to do before I come home next Tuesday. Its really not THAT much, its just hard to do it. Oy.
I had an interesting talk today with the Chabad rabbi about chosen-ness. I really can’t get my head around the idea that the Jews are a chosen people and all the other religions aren’t. On a very low level it seems weird that every group thinks that they are the best/chosen. Statistically there is not such a great chance that any group including Judaism would be the highest one. On a much deeper level, I can’t imagine G-d caring what language one speaks when they talk to him. All religions seem so similar in so many ways, like they are all trying to explain the same or very similar experiences. It is just a hard thing to put into words and that is the reason why we have separate religions. I don’t know, I am going to meet with him again on Shabbos to keep talking about this because it’s a hard thing to believe in a Jewish community of people where many people really think that they are the chosen people to the exclusion of others.
Any thoughts?
posted by Eli @ 11:10 PM
1 Comments:
My mother's analogy is to the Jewish People as G-d's first child: we get all the oldest-child confusion and mistakes on G-d's part, as much as G-d can make mistakes. My other favorite notion is that the Jews are basically middlemen- not a real pleasant position: that's drawn from the idea of the "Kingdom of Priests"- priests are middlemen between people and G-d, and that's the idea of what Jewish chosenness is supposed to do to us: put us in between to facilitate communications.
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