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According to Jewish tradition, G-d created all human beings in their different shapes, characters and forms. G-d sees the human being as his partner in creation and in molding and advancing the world. As we are all partners of G-d but none of us is like G-d—“yet Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels” (Psalms 8:5, 89:3, 92:15)—all of us are, to a certain extent, disabled.
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Halevy, J., Halevy, A. (2014). Jewish Perspective on Vulnerable Groups: The Elderly and the Disabled. In: Tham, J., Garcia, A., Miranda, G. (eds) Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8736-9_17
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