Dear Goyim
An Open Letter to the Nations
To my neighbors among the nations: I begin this letter with a word that often causes a flinch. In the modern vernacular, “Goy” is frequently misunderstood as a slur, a term of derision used by Jews to distance themselves from the rest of humanity. I use it here today to reclaim its truth. In our sacred tongue, Goy simply means “Nation.” In our own prayers, the Jewish people are described as Goy Echad Ba’aretz—”One Nation in the Land.”
By addressing you as Goyim, I am not looking down upon you; I am calling out to the families of the earth as a peer, recognizing your distinct identities while stripping away the layers of hasbara—Israel’s defensive propaganda—that has clouded our shared reality for far too long.
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Well written!!
Sorry, but you lost me with Galileo. Galileo, like Newton, Euler, Faraday, Maxwell, and many of the other founders of modern science, was a deeply religious man (albeit a Christian, but that debate is not the subject here) and certainly not an advocate of dogmatic materialism.
Galileo liberated us from the superstitions of Aristotle and other ancient Greeks, and opened the door to an amazing revelation of the Creator's wisdom. Those who choose to see things otherwise are to blame for their own blindness.