Le origini del genere umano secondo Elia Benamozegh

Abstract

Among the most original thinkers of Judaism during the nineteenth century, was the Italian rabbi Elia Benamozegh. He developed a theological foundation for the unity of “the human society,” a foundation capable of connecting the metaphysical universalism of the origin of the humankind and the historical, evolutionary particularism of single nations and cultures. At the core of his masterpiece Israël et l’humanité, published posthumously in 1914, we find the idea that the seventy nations are all blessed by God and subject to the single divine Law. But according to a Talmudic doctrine, while those nations should serve God by observing the “seven Noachide laws” (the seven ethical commandments given to Noah and his descendants), the people of Israel should serve God by abiding by the 613 precepts given in the Torah. The convergence in such a monotheistic service for Israel and the rest of humanity is a goal that will be fulfilled in the Messianic era. 

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