Israel and Humanity - Foreword by Dr. Alfred Levy, Chief Rabbi of France
FOREWORD
By publishing, thirteen years after his death, the master work of the learned rabbi She Benamozegh lerabl and lHumanité the 018 J'auteur and his worthy successor, Dr. Samuel Colombo, piously honor his memory and pride themselves greatly on their same.
They allow d% edge to posterity to appreciate scholarship lucomparable, the vision, the outstanding qualities of heart and fflesprit this minister of God whose life was devoted àl'étude and exposure of our holy doctrines .
They then continued to IBraël a real service by publishing a work intended to show all that is (the luge, generous, sublime in his ideal of love for God, justice, devotion, deesprit of fratersdité and harmony to humanity.
Chosen by God to fulfill earthly mission eminently mligion8ae that spread throughout the world the concept of monotheism, laraël was found in PhêbraïBme elements of this universal religion dedicated to mankind and that the messianic era, will bring under its broad umbrella, all the nations of the globe.
Up one God, Creator and Father of all men, young one family (the brothers who confuse whole PADOR (Not the Good God, this is the Jewish coneeption par excellence, one for which Israel, the first - born of the Lord, this people-priest, has struggled and suffered so much, you is the dream and it continues to achieve which he had to maintain good particularism. It does not require that all peoples are hatched. woven Judaism and practice all the precepts, they manage to put the eonceptiou of the One God, while worship in their own way.
It is to develop this idea mistress Benamozegh Elijah spent the treasures of his prodigious erudition. Drawing its arguments to biblical sources, and even Talmudic Kabbalistic he attended the universal thought of Judaism in the idea that he conceived of God, humanity and its ultimate end, in both Jewish law regarding the Mosaic laws in what regards the laws Noachides for the Gentile.
In this monument to the glory of Judaism. we know what we should most admire or powerful labor that it requires wealth of documentation reveals quqi. This increases the merit of this voluminous work is the loyalty with which the author addresses all the questions and answers in advance to all the objections which he states that his book may lead, not a problem that does raised and it seeks to solve. Israel, and we know the writer infinitely grateful, out of this study, absolutely free of any hint of egotism, of personal interest. He desires only the good of humanity, it aspires only one goal: the establishment of the kingdom of God on the light. So he courageously continued his work, loyal to mOWBmO, preserving its traditions and practice, as desired until the day when, according Pexpression which terminates all rushed knew God Will a unique name and BOR. (Wind is the supreme desire of the round in which no "we assoelons the bottom of our Sister.
Say, in conclusion, the author found in one of his disciples, Mr. Aimé Pallière (Loëtmol) a wash admirer of his ideas he made his own for most and which he has managed to give VII @ on tour literature, the author while he was abroad, who desired that his book was read in all countries, he appeared in our language. Tou our remerelements go to him and worthy publishers of this work.
July 23, 1913
ALFRED LEVY Grand Rabbi of France
