{"id":1785,"date":"2018-09-09T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T13:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2018-09-16T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T14:31:45","slug":"the-god-of-all-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/09\/the-god-of-all-or\/","title":{"rendered":"The God of All or the God of the Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Reuven Kimelman discusses the tensions in the universalism of Alenu and its relationship to Shema\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thetorah.com\/theological-tension-of-aleinu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in this article on TheTorah.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God is not presented as God of the Exodus or the covenant with the patriarchs, but pointedly the God of Creation. So why is the Master of all not worshipped by all, but only by us Jews? The answer to this question comes in two steps. The first is in the\u00a0prooftext of the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For you have come to know this day and thus should take to heart that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other (Deut. 4:39).<\/p>\n<p>In other words, since no other people was made privy to such a revelation, only we (Jews), apprised of the truth of creation, are called upon to worship the one God who created all. But this answer is unsatisfying since a universal God should be worshipped universally, especially since, as the prayer has stated, only this God is real whereas all others are \u201cemptiness\u201d and \u201csave not.\u201d This tension is resolved in the vision for the future found in the second paragraph of\u00a0<em>Aleinu<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0https:\/\/thetorah.com\/theological-tension-of-aleinu\/<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Reuven Kimelman discusses the tensions in the universalism of Alenu and its relationship to Shema\u00a0in this article on TheTorah.com. God is not presented as God of the Exodus or the covenant with the patriarchs, but pointedly the God of Creation. 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