The philosopher Martin Buber places us in a context of nomadic seekers: "As a historical people, Israel
enjoys no precedence over any other. Like Israel, the other peoples were all wanderers and settlers; they
came ‘up' from a land of want and servitude into their present homeland. The one God, the Redeemer and
Leader of the peoples, strode before all of them upon their way." It is not unlike a mother who writes six
letters to her six children, and in each letter writes, "You are my favorite!"