Reply To: Herzog’s column

Marx, that’s what rav saadya et al is coming to go against. It’s not “ridiculous”. We were called a nation in some level because of avrohoms choices to serve Hashem, but it was contingent on our acceptance of the Torah. If we wouldn’t have accepted,we wouldn’t be here, as Hashem said “shom tehey kevuraschem” by har sinai. The name yisroel is based on yaakovs righteousness.

Not only that, but Hashem would have destroyed the world and started all over again to have a nation of torah, because that is who we are – nothing further and nothing less.