In this brief but moving talk, Rabbi Prof. David Hartman of Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, talks about the real meaning of chosenness for the Jewish people, how it is universalist, not exclusivist, how it is God's quest for intimacy, and how chosenness is how God would like the world to be - even if Jews are not always capable of holding up their end of the bargain, and how chosenness is related to the Golden Rule as articulated by Hillel: Don't to others what you don't like yourself.
