Chosenness in Judaism: Superiority, Responsibility, and Divine Love - With Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

Send us Fan Mail Chosenness in Judaism: Superiority, Responsibility, and Divine Love (with Rabbi Elie Kaunfer) Host Blake Cohen interviews Rabbi Elie Kaunfer of the Hadar Institute about the Jewish concept of chosenness and why it is often misconstrued as superiority. Kaunfer distinguishes rabbinic views—chosenness as being selected to enact and model Torah morality—from the Torah’s depiction of God choosing Israel and Abraham without stated merit, framed as an irrational love in Deuteronomy...