For your (hopefully) lazy Sunday enjoyment, here is a great quote I heard in a recorded shiur a few weeks ago while driving cross-country. Unfortunately, I don’t remember which shiur it came from! Since I listened to over 30 hours of them, I’m not going to go through all of them to locate two sentences.
Hashem did not create the Jews. He created humanity.
I think of this quote whenever I hear Jews speak negatively of or imply being superior to non-Jews. After all, G-d could have chosen to only create the Jews, but that’s not what He did. Every individual on this earth has a place and a purpose, and we all possess sparks of the divine in our souls. We should treat each other that way.
Elle says
thank you for this
Larry Lennhoff says
Absolutely. We are all made btzelem elokim.