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    the term is misunderstood to mean that, as the chosen people, the Jews think they are better than everyone else. God singles out people—assigns the Jewish people—to announce to humanity that (1) every human being is chosen for a task that no other human being can perform and (2) every soul that enters creation is indispensable to all of creation. The Jews are chosen to say to the world, “Each of us is summoned to an absolute responsibility to God for how we treat our neighbor,” and this absolute responsibility includes risking death for the sake of our neighbor, as the Righteous among the Nations did during the Shoah. The exceptionalism here is not about privilege or superiority; it is about the obligation and the responsibility that define humanity. It is about the cry of “Here I am for you!” to the human outcry all around us, a cry for which I am singled out.

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    Please try to avoid generalizing Judaists and their beliefs; don’t conflate right‐wing Judaists with devout Judaists.