Jonathan Sacerdoti
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That's a really good question.
I mean, I can tell you what my goal as a Jew is, and I think it's probably fairly typical.
I think Jews want to live according to our own code, religiously, religious Jews as a religion.
We want to live according to our values and our codes and our laws, some of which are actually very compatible with the laws of the West.
I mean, remember that Christianity was born of Judaism and many of the things that are Christian values or even secular Western values actually originate in Jewish teachings and Jewish culture and the Jewish religion.
The Ten Commandments are from the Jewish Bible, the Old Testament, the Torah.
That put into...
Ten very specific commandments.
It codified basically the bedrock of Western civilization and ethics.
The idea of one God that we should all be united under, of not murdering, of not committing adultery, of not stealing, of not being jealous of our neighbors.
Those sorts of things which seem to us automatic now, even non-religious people, non-Christians, non-Jews, non-Muslims, they say, well, these things are obvious.
But they weren't always obvious.
The reason they were codified and manifested in the Ten Commandments was because this was a revolutionary idea that under ā
worship of one God and justice for all men equally.
These were 10 rules to live by, and they have probably influenced billions of people historically around the world, Jews and non-Jews.
So we want to carry out our lives according to our rules.
Some of our rules are different.
So we have different dietary laws, for example.
We eat kosher food.
Some of us, some don't.