Israel and Humanity - The original unity from the Bible and the Rabbis
SECOND PART
MAN [1]
FIRST CHAPTER
THE IDEA OF MAN IN JUDAISM
ORIGIN OF HUMANITY
I.
The original unit from the Bible and the Rabbis.
We must look now if the idea that Judaism has made the human character of this universalism that we just find the idea of God.
The first thought that comes to mind is that only throughout the ancient Israelite religion has occupied the origins of humanity. Regardless of how as little as possible with its particularist traditions tell, this fact alone is already evidence in favor of its universal aspirations, as acknowledged by the most impartial writers. All races, driven by ignorance as well as pride, sought to trace their genealogy to our first parents by excluding other people of this lien. At the most if the history of these races is sometimes mentioned as an appendix to the history of the primary race. The stranger, the barbarian appears as an inferior being whose nature remains rough and incomplete development, by denying him the honor of the original community is allows himself to fight, rob, to kill even The day interest so requires. This was so in ancient times and it still is even today among people who inject yet civilization. [2] The ethnology of the Jews, as was rightly noticed, based on broader notions, and their sacred books in their stories about the origins, are interested in other breeds as well as ancestors of Israel. Certainly, from a certain period in the history of mankind, the Bible, which is specially for Jews, failing to care for other people to Israel specifically, but it is nonetheless true that in his early chapters trace it, either before or after the flood, if a general framework that embraces a perfect equality of all peoples of the earth. In its various sections on Jewish history, it is not even unusual to find small digressions in which he is not Hebrew, but some heathen nation, which clearly proves that in the eyes of the biblical writers foreigners were by no means contemptible beings home. We make no difficulty in recognizing that national pride has always pushed each people to think well above all others, He certainly was formerly in Jerusalem as in Athens, he is still the case today in Rome, Berlin and Paris. But history will tell whether the race that had consistently and distinctly that no other idea of the essential equality and fundamental of all men, which implies the absence of any claim to privilege any innate, is not that which is best entitled to aspire to the religious leadership of mankind. This is also the only area in which Judaism claims a special place and Israel is so far from neglecting the origin of the Gentiles and their historical development, we can say of him, much more Because although Florus did not say the Romans, by reading its history is not the story of one people that we learn, but of the entire human race.
It is much doubt that Judaism was the only religion of antiquity which is occupied of the origins of humanity, but how he solved the problem by proclaiming the oneness of humankind is the One of his best claims to fame. The Judaism stood in his conception of man, to an incomparable height. He put on the throne of God and this is one day Christianity went to find the way down and reign on earth, transforming the avatar into a real apotheosis Jewish. He placed at the dawn of creation on the still unformed chaos as a fertilizing force [3] and organizer, when he made the Spirit of God or the mighty wind that blew over waters of the first man's soul and the soul of man, the soul of the earth.
For some scholars these days that man is the descendant of a sophisticated quadruman; for rabbinic Judaism instead the monkey is a degenerate man. This doctrine, moreover, is not entirely alien to modern science, as naturalists have argued that bimana and quadrupeds may well descend from a common stock, a higher placental, a primate, who played the role of native species, have given birth, by law of divergence, the two orders mentioned. Thus Judaism is in agreement with science when he proclaimed the affinity of man with all organic beings. Perhaps we should see an echo of this tradition in the words of St. Francis of Assisi appellant, as did the Buddha, all animals his younger brothers. Rabbinic theory makes man the organizing force of the earth and hence the germ of every living thing. This is the meaning of this Haggadah describes an Adam whose size rises from earth to heaven and whose width extends from one end to another world [4]. Another Talmudic legend confirms the relationship to the first man with all organic forms, when it shows Adam trying to unite all the animals of the earth before finding his mate. It is always the identification of Adam with the primordial form of protozoa which are branched all organic forms. And another aspect is still the doctrine of the Kabbalah which sees the male principle in Adam and Eve in the world, the feminine principle, and the other one being shown later by the two cherubim of the temple, they as male and female, born of the Logos (Tipheret) and the cosmos (malkout).
What boldness and breadth of what a view! Jewish universalism in his views on the unity of origin of mankind, reaching almost unbelievable proportions. And yet there is so little fanciful interpretation of the Rabbis, it is so authentically biblical story of the lawless early chapters of Genesis that has mystery and childish to offer. If in this story we refuse to see a myth, we defy you to find something worthy to hold a moment of attention. [5] Listen science give us the conclusion of the Darwinian system: "Starting from the principle of natural selection with divergence of character, it does not seem incredible that animals and plants are trained some intermediate form below. If we accept this starting point, we must also admit that all organic beings which have ever lived may be descended from a single primordial form "[6]. Adam would thus not only the father of all mankind, but all that has life and the world would form one family, though infinitely varied in its members. We do not claim to support that this is the only acceptable meaning of the first chapters of Genesis, or outside of this design almost cosmogonic, the rabbis do not recognize a historical Adam closer to us and created in our image. We affirm that only just read the biblical narrative to discover something other than literal meaning. If a historical Adam existed, a crowd of mythical notions was added that the tradition has been able to find him, to the point of recognition. Anyway, scriptural or not, this grand design Adamite is undoubtedly a concept and rabbinic Hebrew and must therefore be taken into account when it comes to studying the universalistic beliefs of Judaism.
We believe that it will no longer be allowed after that to talk about narrow views, horizons narrowed, selfishness about a national religion, telling his origins, consists in a universal embrace men, animals, plants and all creation. Maybe you did not notice as appropriate the beauty of this rabbinical legend, under which, to form the body of Adam, God took the land under the site of the altar in Jerusalem, or as Doctors say verbatim, place of forgiveness [7]. The merciful love of the Creator, the eminent dignity of Adam, the father of mankind, whose body is shaped at the altar of God, and the line of light that illuminates the religious universalism Jewish worship deemed so jealously particularistic and this temple was said to be the citadel of narrower national egoism, all is not it wonderful here? We also envision the link that connects, in the minds of rabbis, [8] human unity in divine unity. This being admitted, is not it natural that the human race was created by a single act of this unique and sovereign power? National gods could have created all the people he wanted to govern, but a universal God could not make as many special creations, as if dissatisfied with the first, He was trying new ones. Thus the belief in the unity of origin of humanity provides a new argument for the existence of monotheism among the ancient Hebrews, for they certainly do not find established at a time so remote, if men don ' had then thought the unity of creative power.
"In polytheism, says a distinguished author, the division of nations is originally and ever since it derives from the plurality of gods, each of which is the emblem of a distinct people. Also, despite the progress of philosophy, thinkers of Greece and Rome had rather the suspicion that the conviction of the brotherhood. This obstacle to the design of the brotherhood does not exist in the Mosaic. One God created mankind and to show that all are one in essence, the Creator gives birth to one man. He even wants the woman he gave to the first man to be taken from him, so that everything is one in the human race. Thus, the special election which boast the Hebrews was dominated by a superior dogma and fundamental unity of God and creation "[9]. Paganism had so much instinct of monotheism link related to human unity that the body of his latest apologist, the Emperor Julian, we see denying this unit, alleging the existence of various gods who inspire variously every people on earth [10]. We said that the varieties of breeds, allocated by Julien at the plurality of gods, are for us a fact which finds its explanation in theological skills specific to the divine design, ie to consider especially one side of the nature of God , became one of its attributes, once personified the ideal of a people, the sar of the people themselves. And we know that all this is perfectly compatible with monotheism, provided however, that each nation recognizes that it has only one side of the synthesis unit and none of the divine ideas should be exclusive. [11] The brotherhood among all peoples and the communion of all with Israel, which is the center around which should aim to meet all religious views, this is the ultimate consequence of the unity of origin humanity so loudly proclaimed by Judaism.
