Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Endorsing a Two-Track Model of the election, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888) argues that the Jewish track must be analysed in terms of two sub-tracks. On the first, the Jewish people are to testify to the world about the existence of God. They are to do this simply in virtue of their unique history, and their survival against all odds. Given their unique association, in the public imagination, with the name of God, their uncanny history will constitute evidence of theism to the world. The second sub-track concerns how the Jews are called upon to live. In answer to the question that Chapter 21 left over, Rabbi Hirsch goes to great lengths to show how every last detail of Jewish law, when properly understood, contributes to shaping its adherents into global ambassadors of ethical monotheism. But does his theory of the election require an unrealistic idealization of the halakhic lifestyle?</jats:p>