Above all Abraham is … the one whose tent was open to the four winds… Abraham must have taken the three passers-by for three Bedouins, three nomads… three Arabs indeed!… Abraham’s descendants are men to whom their ancestors bequeathed a difficult tradition of duties toward the other, which we have never finished fulfilling, an order from which we are never released, but where the duty takes on above all the form of obligation…Abraham’s descendants are men of all nations: every man who is truly a man is probably a descendant of Abraham.
E. Levinas, “Du sacré au saint”
