Pensamiento judío sobre II Reyes 18:33

However, our generation needs a very specific explanation why the deeds are so important, for they find in the deeds only external religiosity, and they therefore find it easy to disparage them. They view all religions as equal, and they don’t pay attention to the difference between Judaism and our Torah [on one hand], and all other writ and religions [on the other]. Rabshakeh spoke (II Kings 18:33-38) about the Jewish god like the pagan gods, without knowing the immeasurably broad distinction. People of our generation don’t care to understand the differences in value between the Torah of Israel (which all wise people admit is the mother of religions), and all [other] writ and religion.

Faith in the Oral Torah, and the seeking of fixing religion according to the zeitgeist (which brings a great darkness to the world), go hand-in-hand on a psychological level. The depth of these passions come from a single force, but they go and detach from each other, one turning towards the path of holiness, and one towards causing blasphemy and desecration of all that is holy, (Ezekiel 28:24) “a prickling thorn.” But once we explain to those passionate souls the basis of their claims, and how [their claims] should best be judged, then the anger will die down, and hearts will return to their rightful places. It is not right to be silent about this, where a defender of faith comes to make a claim, and he gives no other room for a claim of another point of view, thinking that there should be no room in the heart at all for these sensational claims. He will not be successful in his endeavor [to defend beliefs], for claims [always] have a basis to them. One just has to know where they come from, and [how to] respond according to the level best suited for them.