Judaism offered the covenantal model—a partnership between God and man. In the initial phase, God is the initiator and driving force, but for the sake of human freedom and dignity, God self-limits. Humanity is to grow into ever greater responsibility.

In the past, Jews had generally kept themselves to themselves, not intervening in wider social debates. But that was due to circumstance, not principle. Times had changed, and with them our responsibilities.

The Torah is an extended wrestling with the question of human association.

Judaism is not about the truths we know, but about the truths we live.