Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: What means "chosen"? Message-ID: <101@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 23:10:42 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.101 Posted: Sun Sep 29 23:10:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 03:23:18 EDT Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 16 Summary: I've seen a lot of traffic in some other newsgroups debating whether or not the Jews really are "G*d's chosen people". I sense that some gentiles resent what appears to them to be Jewish egotism, without even understanding what we mean when we claim to be chosen. I myself am not sure what it means. What exactly does it mean to be "chosen"? Chosen for what? What is the significance of this description? Does a convert to Judaism become "chosen"? How so? What does it say about the Jews' relationship with G*d? What exactly is the status of the "nonchosen"? What does this imply about G*d's relationship with non-Jews? Frank Silbermann