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\"delllarocca\"<\/a>By Roberto Della Rocca*<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the chapter 12 of Bereshit (Genesis) Jewish history begins with the command that the Eternal One gives to Abram: lech lech\u00e0, which translates to something like \u201cGet yourself out,\u201d but could also be taken as \u201cgo toward yourself,\u201d i.e. in search of yourself. This process of identification, however, entails a kind of breaking away from the past, from hereditary prejudices, from unconscious social and cultural norms. <\/p>\n

For this reason, the gradational manner with which the Torah indicates the situations that Abram must leave behind, \u201cyour land, the place where you were born, the house of your father\u2026\u201d are not listed in a logical order, but rather in an order of a different kind. \u201cGo into yourself\u201d: listen to the voice the comes to you from inside and not always to the one that reaches you from outside. <\/p>\n

It is only through this process that Abram becomes Abraham, \u201cfather of many nations\u201d (Bereshit 17:5), a true universalist.<\/p>\n

*Roberto Della Rocca is a rabbi and the Director of the Education Department at the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. This article was translated from the Italian by Daniel Leisawitz, professor at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA) and his students.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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