Rabbi Dr. Yosef Breuer (1882-1980)
“In
Psalm 80, 18 Israel is described as בן אדם: The son of
humanity, the first son of a future generation of humanity, awaiting the hour
of its rebirth. – It is only in this sense that God chose Israel, not in order
to imply the rejection of the rest of mankind but to help all of man attain the
most lofty goals of salvation…. The purpose of the prophet’s mission was to
help bring about the rebirth not only of Israel but all of mankind. Jeremiah,
too, had been send in his mission נביא לגוים [prophet to the nations] See Hirsch, Collected Writings,
IV, p. 23.” (The Book of Yechezkel, Feldheim, Spring Valley, NY, 1993, p. 8.)
In
Psalm 80, 18 Israel is described as בן אדם: The son of
humanity, the first son of a future generation of humanity, awaiting the hour
of its rebirth. – It is only in this sense that God chose Israel, not in order
to imply the rejection of the rest of mankind but to help all of man attain the
most lofty goals of salvation…. The purpose of the prophet’s mission was to
help bring about the rebirth not only of Israel but all of mankind. Jeremiah,
too, had been send in his mission נביא לגוים [prophet to the nations] See Hirsch, Collected Writings,
IV, p. 23. (The Book of Yechezkel, Feldheim, Spring Valley, NY, 1993, p. 8.)
