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17 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 15 (2017)
Faith and Hospitality

handle is hein.journals/margin17 and id is 19 raw text is: FAITH AND HOSPITALITY Nina Beth Cardin* Law, at its core, is a matter of heart. It is a way that any two or more people determine how to live together, how to share the time and space and stuff of life. It is an expression of what a society deems fair and good, or wrong and out-of-bounds, and the structures put in place to codify, enforce and adjudicate such beliefs. Law, in short, is values made manifest, which is why it is right and proper, even essential, for faith communities to enter the conversation about law. Especially now. It is precisely when difficult circumstances of global population displacement strain our social graces, when extraordinary times try our better angels, that we may turn fearful and inward, and seek refuge in law as a tool of protectionism and exclusion. So it may seem banal in a time of such upheaval and dislocation, when millions of refugees fleeing for their lives are disrupting national and international stability, to call upon faith communities to speak to us about their traditions of hospitality. But that is what we must do. It is precisely now that the traditions, the attitude and the practice of hospitality are needed most. Hospitality is first and foremost an act of selflessness triggered by the need, the call, of the traveler, the stranger, the exiled, the ones far from home. The Hebrew Bible speaks no less than ninety-two times of ger, which translates to stranger or immigrant and what we must do to care for them.' When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall enjoy the same protections as your citizens. You shall love him as yourself for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.2 * Nina Beth Cardin is a rabbi in Baltimore who works at the intersection of faith and sustainability. 1Scripture and Immigration, WELCOMING THE STRANGER WORLD RELIEF, http://welcomingthestranger.com/wpwelcoming/learn-and-discern/scripture-and- immigration (last visited Apr. 19, 2017) (stating that ger is used 92 times in the Torah and roughly translates to immigrant). 2 Leviticus 19:33-34.

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