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Abraham was not religious

By Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer

Over millennia, the notion of what constitutes faith has changed significantly. Given the Western world’s current accepted definition, how, if he were alive today, would the “father of monotheism” be regarded?


Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer, a bioethicist and author, most recently of “Search Judaism: Judaism’s Answers to a Changing World”, is the president of the Think and Care Tank, a non-partisan, public policy think tank dedicated to sharing Jewish values.

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