Reform deleted Messianic hope and chosenness from Jewish prayerbooks

Evidence

To do so, they had to transform the two basic elements of Jewish piety—the Messianic hope and the faith in Israel’s chosenness, and they deleted from Jewish prayerbooks the visions of an ultimate restoration of Zion, along with the pious anticipation of the day at the end of days when the segregation of the Jewish people from the nations of the earth would come to an end. Without the Messianic hope, the idea of chosenness meant eternal segregation; without faith in chosenness, which charged one specific people with the redemption of the world, Messianic hope evaporated into the dim cloud of general philanthropy and universalism which became so characteristic of specifically Jewish political enthusiasm. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 238

Categorization

• XREF: The coupling of chosenness-with-mission: how stripping messianic responsibility leaves chosenness as mere segregation — parallels how emptied ‘difference’ becomes exclusion in the Islamophobia frame.
• DEEPTHINKING: The two-way collapse — chosenness without mission becomes eternal segregation; mission without chosenness becomes empty universalism — is a dense conceptual mechanism about how ideology degenerates when its paired concepts are split.