So what’s the dream of God according to the Jewish Bible? Very simply, a world of compassion, justice, and peace. Compassion and justice, I want to underline, are intrinsically related. Justice is the social form of compassion, and compassion is the heart of justice. This is a political vision. More precisely, it’s a theopolitical vision—not theocratic, but theopolitical. It’s about politics in the most important sense of the word, about the shaping of society, the shaping of the social world in which we live.
