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\u201cWe are always entitled to call the Torah<\/i> to witness against itself, that is, to apply its own moral standards to some of its passages. We do it no disservice when we let it teach us the highest moral principles, standards so high that the Torah<\/i> itself \u2013 the work of human hands and minds and the product of its own age \u2013 sometimes fails to live up to them. We show no disrespect in reading the Bible critically in this manner, providing we do it to separate the valid from the inaccurate, the permanent from the transient, not to refute the Bible\u2019s claims upon us\u201d<\/span> (Harold S. Kushner, When Children ask about God<\/a>\"\"<\/i> (New York: Schocken Books, 1989) p.134).<\/div>\n
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