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The following is from the new translation of RSRH's commentary on Chumash
Bereishis 16:14. You may read Rav Hirsch's complete commentary on this
Pasuk at
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/arab_jew_bereishis.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/arab_jew_bereishis.pdf</a><br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><b><i>16:14 Therefore, he
called the well, Well of the Living One Who Sees me; it is the one
between Kadesh and Bered.<br><br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>In one respect —
viz., the intellectual — the Arab nation occupies<br>
a position of prominence. It developed with keen insight the idea of<br>
God, an idea bequeathed to it by Avraham. Consider the magnitude<br>
of the Arab influence: The ideas on the unity of God in the writings<br>
of the Jewish philosophers — to the extent that these ideas are
developed<br>
philosophically — are based largely on the intellectual work<br>
of Arab thinkers. They attained
<i>emunah</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>— but they did not attain
the<br>
<i>mitzvos</i>.<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><b><i>Yitzchok
Levine</font></b></i></body>
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