No Word for Religion
"Through your apprehension of God," I repeated. "But what part does faith play?"
"Faith is one way. See, it’s interesting that in Jewish tradition there is no Hebrew word for religion! The reason for this is there isn’t such a concept. If there were a concept, there would be a word for it. We’ve been around a long time. We’ve got words for everything else. We are very articulate peoples. We had no word for religion because that’s not a concept in Jewish tradition. That’s a Hellenistic notion."
What a thunderous idea, I thought, no Hebrew word for religion?
Ideals of Faith
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