Looking deeper into this account, we recognize that the ultimate dwelling place of God is within each and every one of us. We have a lifetime to build a pleasing mind and body in which God's presence can live in the closest proximity to us and inform our thoughts, words and actions.

Many Jewish pro-abortion advocates deliberately misuse this translation to diminish the value of the unborn child, and as a tool to justify and defend unlimited abortion in Judaism. This particular interpretation of Torah has resulted in many Jewish generations lost. It calls into question the foundations of Judaism as a moral and just system. It also causes many righteous born Jews to convert out of our faith in order to resolve a seemingly impossible moral dilemma.

We now find ourselves in perilous times where human ideas rather than biblically based morals and ethics inform our attitudes, laws, national policies and lifestyles. Our pledge to carry our commitment forward through our children fails because we cannot guarantee our children's safe passage from conception through birth and then to teach them the laws of God.

Overnight, the Hebrews are spared endless servitude and extinction, and given the gifts and responsibilities of freedom and spiritual integrity.

Technology advances unimagined in biblical times empower collaboration between nefarious purveyors of anti-human ideology. Anti-life propaganda given away as free gifts in all sorts of pretty packages enslaves the human heart and mind. Too many children, parents, families and communities suffer spiritual exile from a loving God and goodness and life.

The story of Jacob demonstrates that positive participation in public life and God centered religious personal observance are the two keys to Jewish survival in a spiritually unfinished world.

Leah and Rachel’s pregnancy and childbirth experiences illustrate Judaism’s priority of having children. Several times this story mentions that God blesses the barren sisters with fertility. This biblical understanding informs our view that every baby, no matter the circumstance of conception, is a gift from God.

Sarah represents the highest level of Jewish womanhood. Dedicated and loyal to God first, then her husband and children, community and posterity, we can emulate her example with confidence.

Torah encourages us to act in a righteous manner according to Divine justice. Divine justice considers life the highest priority. We know this from Torah, a moral document calling for the sanctity of the human being as made in God’s image. Laws embodied in Torah protect and promote life, not death.

We must Return to our Righteous Roots, Starting with Protecting Unborn Life