# Yitro 5786: A People with a Mission

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Podcast: [Pardes from Jerusalem](https://stenobird.com/podcast/pardes-from-jerusalem-318563)
Published: 2026-02-01T12:26:00+00:00
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## Resource

What responsibility comes with being chosen? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Mike Feuer explore Parshat Yitro and the surprising choice to frame the revelation at Sinai through the presence of Yitro, an outsider. They examine how the Torah presents Jewish chosenness not as exclusivity, but as responsibility—calling Israel to become a mamlechet kohanim, a people devoted to serving God by serving the world. The conversation reflects on how particular covenant and universal mission are meant to work together.

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