On Activism – Between Noah and Abraham

But I'm not comfortable. And I don't want to be.

The story of Noah tells of a society that fell apart from within. “And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence” – an ancient phrase that sometimes feels as if it were written for our day. It was not personal religious sin that destroyed that world, but corruption, violence, and the loss of mutual responsibility. And Noah, the righteous man who builds an ark, saves himself, but does not try to save his generation.

I see this as one of the great lessons of this affair: survival alone is not a mission.
There comes a moment when you have to step out of the box – out of comfort, out of fear, out of silence – and start rebuilding. You have to take risks in those moments. Not send out crows or doves all the time to make sure everything is safe out there.

And after the flood, a different humanity is born, no longer uniform, speaking different languages. The Tower of Babel falls because humans try to impose uniformity instead of discovering the beauty of diversity. It is precisely this plurality – of opinions, of beliefs, of cultures – that can truly save us. Only then does the new call sound: “Go, go.”.
In my opinion, this is the moment when responsibility is born.

Avraham is the first activist – a person who doesn't wait for operating instructions and is content with a general "go, go." He walks, argues, acts, believes that it can be fixed.

From the seemingly safe ark and the passive Noah, to the unknown path and Abraham the activist, this is the transition that each of us is called to today.
Not to be saved but to save, and not to protect ourselves and lock ourselves in a box, but to build a more just and better world together.