The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.


Jewish Philosophy and the crisis of Modernity : Essays And Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought, p. 327 (1997)

Leo Strauss Quotes

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the...

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the...

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the...

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the...