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The Covenant of Fragments
A Jewish theology of religions: every people’s wisdom has a place inside the covenant with Noah.
Humanity has built an astonishing variety of religions, laws, and wisdoms. The Jewish claim, as I read it, is that all of them belong somewhere inside the horizon of the berith Noah, the covenant with Noah after the flood: a minimal universal law of justice and decency, binding on every people, which Rambam codifies in his laws of kings.
That covenant is universal but not homogenizing. It binds every people without asking any of them to become someone else. Each tradition holds a fragment, and the fragments belong to one covenant.
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- The Covenant of Fragments 21 August 2025