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America, it has often been said, is not so much a place, but an idea.

What does this mean? The language of the Bible,

as so often happens, offers us an excellent clue. In Hebrew, the United States of America is called

Arzot Habrit, or the states of the covenant. A covenant is much different than a contract. A contract

stipulates every imaginable condition and covers every loophole because it has no

theory of change.

It wants to guarantee a very specific outcome.

The shipment is delivered.

The house is sold.

A covenant, on the other hand, is all about change.

You enter into it in order to grow and become the best version of yourself.

It's a leap of faith.

Just ask the biblical prophet Abraham.

God selects this ordinary man to bring his name into the world not because of who Abraham is, but because

of who Abraham is capable of becoming. Following in his footsteps, his descendants, the Jews,

sought to remain true to the covenant. They quickly realized that the strange, terrifying, and marvelous

thing about covenants is that they must be renewed.

No renewal looks the same. Each comes with its own set of obstacles and opportunities.

Each demands that we, like faithful Abe, ask ourselves what it is that we believe and what

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