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Preface: Why Four Letters?
The violence of these years has exposed not only geopolitical fault lines but also the spiritual fault lines that underlie them. When children are buried in Gaza, when hostages languish in tunnels, when Jewish families live in fear and diaspora communities are torn apart by moral injury, the question is not only political. It is covenantal.
That is why this white paper is structured around four letters:
- To Israel and the Jewish People — a rabbinic call to reread chosenness and covenant as responsibility and kinship.
- To Prime Minister Netanyahu — a rabbinic appeal to leadership to tell the truth, repent of failed strategies, and embrace accountability.
- To the Nations — a universal call to Christians, Muslims, secular societies, and all peoples to reread their own inheritances and misreadings.
- To Hamas Leadership — an imam’s appeal to repentance, release of hostages, and renunciation of cruelty.
Together these letters form a quadruple covenantal frame, like four points of a compass. They remind us that no one — neither Israel, nor Hamas, nor the Nations — is exempt from the work of truth, repentance, and reconciliation.
Just as Sinai gave two tablets, this moment demands four: two addressed inward (to Israel and its leadership), and two addressed outward (to the Nations and to Hamas). Joined together, they form a single covenant of kinship that can orient us beyond separation and toward life.