Collective Punishment

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…Over the last week, the IDF arrested Abu Hassan Yousef, head of Hamas in Judea and Samaria, whose rebel son broke from his father’s house, sort of like Abraham, rejected Islam and converted to Christianity, saying, the problem with Islam is it conception of G-d, who is a cruel god.

Bull’s-eye. The great divide between paganism and Jewishness is over the nature of G-d. The pagans saw the forces beyond their power as cruel, capricious and chaotic.
But Avraham said there are no “forces,” no multiplicity of powers or gods but the One G-d only and He is Merciful. Avraham chose HaShem as his G-d, and G-d chose Abraham as his new Noah for a new beginning for mankind because Avraham’s greatest characteristic was his kindness. It was, so to speak, a marriage made in heaven…