Sublime

The mufti was apparently planning to return to Palestine in the event of a German victory and to construct a death camp modeled after Auschwitz, near Nablus.

The Jewish tradition is not optimistic about human nature but it is stubbornly, insistently possibilistic.4 Its deeply held conviction is not that we will choose the good but that we can do

“The Orthodox Jewish community is third world in theology and philosophy. Having a political state of Israel now, I’m convinced the great religious challenge is going to be the pluralist issue. Each culture can no longer present itself as self-evident.”

When we do, we assume the politicians are clients in a patron–client relationship, and we assume their obligations will cloud their impartial judgment.

Here in Jewish law is the logic of civil disobedience, the idea that we have a duty to disobey an immoral order.