taught it; I stand squarely within a reading of the Torah that derives from that same perspective on what it means to be a kingdom of priests and a holy people. So we care equally about the same things, in the same terms. Both of us revere as God’s word precisely the same Scriptures: the Torah that God revealed to Moses at Sinai. Paul and I can argue, because we agree about so much. And that is why he would consent to talk with me, a rabbi, about that matter of who and what is Israel, since, in his
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