to a new and more fundamental plane” by means of “an ethic of love-patriarchalism.”43 The basic idea then is “the willing acceptance of given inequalities” and “making them fruitful for the ethical values of personal relationships” with the possibility that one might “alter given conditions from within outwards, without touching the external aspect at all.”44 The approach of the Torah will then become newly important. Israel is God’s chosen people.45 The community of people
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