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History has no more unlikely heroes than the Israelites of Moses’ day. Capricious, fractious, wayward, hardly able to see tomorrow, let alone the unfolding drama of the centuries, they became, in Herman Melville’s evocative phrase, the bearers of the ark of the liberties of the world.

Jonathan Sacks

History has no more unlikely heroes than the Israelites of Moses’ day. Capricious, fractious, wayward, hardly able to see tomorrow, let alone the unfolding drama of the centuries, they became, in Herman Melville’s evocative phrase, the bearers of the ark of the liberties of the world.

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