Kaisipang Hudyo sa Genesis 12:18: Nineteen Letters

In Abraham there was chosen as progenitor of this people a man who, in his individual life, already realized the ideal of the people that was to be. The All-One, whom he alone worshipped amidst the multitude of idolatrous seekers after wealth and lust, the All-One called and loving Him alone, Abraham cast from him his native land, his family, his parental dwelling, and all which man loves and cherishes, and followed Him who called him; he accepted the mission to become progenitor of a people from which "blessing should come to all the peoples of the earth which would keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and judgment," and followed Him; he carried out the ideal of this love to the All-One in his love to his children, to his fellow beings; he cared for them, saved them, instructed them, whenever and wherever he could, and prayed for them to the Judge of all. And He, for whom he left all, and whose call he had followed into a strange land, He protected him upon his wanderings, and blessed him, so that he needed to derive safety and blessing only from His hands, and used them only for the salvation of the world.