Turns out, it is literally true!
1.The instruction manual or Western Civilization is the Bible. And it was used, specifically by America’s Founders, as the basis for our Constitution. Due to the influence of Karl Marx’s religion, you probably didn’t find that fact in government school.
2. The Bible offers the tiny nation of Israel as the model for many of our beliefs, and that is the meaning of the title above.
“Light to the nations (
Hebrew: אור לגויים,
romanized:
Or la'Goyim; also "light of the nations", "light of all nations", "light for all nations") is a term originated from the prophet
Isaiah which is understood by some to express the universal designation of the
Israelites as mentors for spiritual and moral guidance for the entire world.” Wikipedia.
3. It is not just or Western folks. I found the universality represented in this article:
"How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea
About an hour’s drive north of Seoul, in the Gwangju Mountains, nearly fifty South Korean children pore over a book. The text is an unlikely choice: the Talmud, the fifteen-hundred-year-old book of Jewish laws. The students are not Jewish, nor are their teachers, and they have no interest in converting. Most have never met a Jew before. But, according to the founder of their school, the students enrolled with the goal of receiving a “Jewish education” in addition to a Korean one.
...their teacher, Park Hyunjun, was explaining that Jews pray wearing two small black boxes, known as tefillin, to help them remember God’s word. He used the Hebrew words
shel rosh (“on the head”) and
shel yad (“on the arm”) to describe where the boxes are worn. Inside these boxes, he said, was parchment that contained verses from one of the holiest Jewish prayers, the Shema, which Jews recite daily. As the room filled with murmurings of the Shema in Korean, the dean of the school leaned over to me and said that the students recited the prayer daily, too, “with the goal of memorizing it.”
The reverend’s thesis is that the Jews have thrived for so many years because of certain educational and cultural practices, and that such benefits can be unlocked for Christians if those practices are taught to their children.
Outside, over bulgogi, Park Hyunjun laid out the goals behind his curriculum. “I would like to make our students to be people of God and to have charity just like Jewish people,”.....
How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea
3. And now, from the South Pacific:
“Despite what anti-Zionist ideologues might assume, the Jews of Israel are an inspiration for many Māori
Though I am Māori, I have for many years worked in and around Jewish issues—the memory of the Holocaust, advocacy for Zionism, and fighting antisemitism. But it is only in more recent years that I have become increasingly aware of the parallels that exist between my own claim to indigeneity and that of Jews to the land of Israel.”
A Light for the Indigenous Nations
The author cites similarities between his Maori people, and the Jewish people, in claiming indigeneity in each of their lands.
The Maori as a sort of ‘Zionists.’
