ABSTRACT
Israel is God’s people, entrusted by Divine Providence with the performance of a world-wide religious task. Two important ideas are thus enunciated. The terms usually employed to express them are the Election and the Mission of Israel. But Israel has not been chosen solely for his own moral and spiritual advantage. The idea of the Election of Israel has for its corollary the idea of Israel’s Mission. Thus Israel’s mission, like his election, is purely religious. Judaism is a missionary religion all Jews agree, and all would repel with equal strenuousness the contrary assertion. Judaism is such a religion in the full sense of the expression. It is this idea of the mission of Israel, a mission whose complete fulfilment is to mark the Messianic Age, which justifies the maintenance of the ceremonial elements of the religion which are intended exclusively for the Jew.
