religion against all assumptions of the Torah that these belong together. In the past the legal system encouraged and occasioned a faith-as-family structure. Jesus’ vision of the end departs from this tradition. In Luke 14:26, Jesus gives a radical call to discipleship: ‘If anyone does not hate father, mother, wife, children, brother or sister, even his own soul (self), he can’t be my disciple.’ This involves a concrete decision to separate from one’s family. In both Judaism and the Old Testament