{"id":49,"date":"2009-04-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/you-still-think-judaism-has-no-mission-of-conversion.html"},"modified":"2009-04-27T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T14:00:00","slug":"you-still-think-judaism-has-no-mission-of-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/you-still-think-judaism-has-no-mission-of-conversion.html","title":{"rendered":"You Still Think Judaism Has No Mission of &#8220;Conversion&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you still think Judaism doesn&#8217;t seek to influence the spiritual path that non-Jews are on? That Jews have no plan of &#8220;conversion&#8221; in mind for the rest of the world? That Judaism has no &#8220;mission&#8221; to humanity? This week&#8217;s Torah reading (<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Acharei-Kedoshim<\/span>, Leviticus 16:1-20:27)\u00a0begins with the description of the high priest&#8217;s service on Yom Kippur.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rabbi S.R. Hirsch notes on Leviticus 16:5: &#8220;That which the priest is to be to the [Jewish] people, the people are to be to the rest of mankind, the &#8216;leading ram&#8217; at the head of God&#8217;s flock of human beings, showing the way to accomplish all that is noble and good.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you still think Judaism doesn&#8217;t seek to influence the spiritual path that non-Jews are on? That Jews have no plan of &#8220;conversion&#8221; in mind for the rest of the world? That Judaism has no &#8220;mission&#8221; to humanity? This week&#8217;s Torah reading (Acharei-Kedoshim, Leviticus 16:1-20:27)\u00a0begins with the description of the high priest&#8217;s service on Yom&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish-mission"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You Still Think Judaism Has No Mission of &quot;Conversion&quot;? - Kingdom of Priests<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/you-still-think-judaism-has-no-mission-of-conversion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You Still Think Judaism Has No Mission of &quot;Conversion&quot;? - Kingdom of Priests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So you still think Judaism doesn&#8217;t seek to influence the spiritual path that non-Jews are on? 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