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Lech Lecha 希語)/ 你去,你獨自前去,不影響他人

你要離開這地。“你要離開這地”是什麼意思呢?律法書本可以簡單地說:“離開”,但是在希伯來語和其他的語言中,當說“你去”的時候,意思是你獨自離開,不要帶其他人,也不要影響其他人。感謝讚美歸於我們的神,其他人是誰呢?答案似乎是亞伯拉罕的追隨者,“在哈蘭所得的人口”。在神向亞伯拉罕顯明之前,亞伯拉罕曾創立了一個信仰團體,由堅信獨一真神的一群人組成。就個人層面而言,亞伯拉罕可能希望繼續這項工作,但神希望我們的先祖亞伯拉罕可以上升到更高的層面,進入更高的等級。神應許亞伯拉罕說:“我必叫你成為大國”。也就是說,神吩咐亞伯拉罕建立政治性和民族性的實體國家。

為什麼?因為需要修正其他的國家,給其他的國家樹立榜樣,而不僅僅是個人。個人需要自己的國家。

以色列的使命是前所未有的!不僅是糾正個人,還需要糾正整個人類社會,以色列必須建立國家。亞伯拉罕承擔起了這個責任。律法書說:“亞伯拉罕照著神的吩咐去了,亞伯拉罕帶著妻子撒拉和姪兒羅德,連同他們在哈蘭所得的人口,都往迦南地去”。 我們的先哲告訴我們,為了建立神聖的國家, 亞伯拉罕曾兩次下迦南。他需要獨自完成建立神聖國家的使命。第二次,亞伯拉罕打算帶走所有的人,繼續其世界主義理念,影響世上的每一個人。

因此,我們的先祖亞伯拉罕有兩個願景:修正個人的願景和修正整個人類世界的願景。於是,亞伯拉罕從亞伯蘭成為了亞伯拉罕,亞伯拉罕的意思是:多國的父。

一個人怎能成為多國的父?就是保持其的獨特性。令人驚奇的是,特別是在亞伯拉罕行割禮的時候,亞伯拉罕被告知:他要成為多國的父。顯而易見,割禮使亞伯拉罕在身體和精神上與世界分別。因此,我們可以理解:如果我們想要影響世界,我們就必須保持獨特性和特殊性。猶太人的特殊性就是維護猶太人的自我認同,使我們成為“多國的父”,而不是通過融入世界文明而影響世界文明。律法書向我們揭示並顯明:只有回歸自我,才能給世界帶來祝福。

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