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1 " We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent. "
― Jonathan Sacks , The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations