Even though the world is full of armed conflicts, the fate of entire peoples is often decided not on the front lines, but in the relationships between people, in their handling of guilt, power, jealousy, and their capacity for reconciliation. The Bible recognizes this dynamic from the very first page. Long before Israel emerges as a nation, brothers are broken by envy, pride, and speechlessness.
Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Joseph and his brothers—they all experience not only family stories, but the spiritual prehistory of a people. Remarkably, it was in the Valley of Dothan—where Jacob’s sons once sold their brother Joseph to remove him from their midst—that, almost four millennia later, Jerusalem’s Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini planned an extermination camp. And these dramas confront us to this day with the same uncomfortable question: Do we disintegrate because of our divisions, or do we grow through the power of repentance? It is a spiritual maturation process that many other peoples have never undergone—a process that Israel has repeatedly experienced and endured over more than three thousand...
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