Abstract
This chapter approaches the question of truth not from the starting point of theoretical considerations but rather from specific textual contexts. It studies rabbinic sources in detail and brings them into dialogue with broader philosophical concerns that pertain to a universal and particular truth. A perfect God must necessarily be the God of all people, and as such, it is inconceivable that human well-being would be dependent on a particular divine revelation. The chapter walks us through a range of rabbinic options. The fuller theoretical articulation of these concerns is found in the works of Moses Mendelssohn and Franz Rosenzweig, and the chapter discovers them also at the heart of midrashic thinking. Reflecting on God's perfection leads one to recognize God's universality, the potential to know God in ways that transcend the particularity of Judaism. The chapter opens us up to the presence of a universal dimension that derives from God's being and his creative act and relationship to all, beyond the particularity of his relationship with Israel. Notions of particular and universal truth are thus refracted or approached through the affirmation of God's perfection.
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