What is the purpose of rebellion?  Could rebellion be good? Rabbi Cardoza feels rebellion is essential to Judaism.

One of the great tasks of Jewish education is to deliberately create an atmosphere of rebellion among its students. Rebellion, after all, is the great emancipator. To paraphrase English writer Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832): We owe almost all our knowledge and achievements not to those who agreed but to those who differed. It was this quality that brought Judaism into existence. Avraham was the first great rebel, destroying idols, and he was followed by his children, by Moshe, and by the Jewish people.

What has been entirely forgotten is that the Torah was the first rebellious text to appear in world history. Its purpose was to protest. It set in motion a rebellious movement of universal proportions second to none. The text includes all the heresies of the past, present and future. It calls idol worship an abomination, immorality a scandal, and the worship of man a catastrophe. It protests against complacency, imitation, and negation of the spirit. It calls for radical thinking and radical action, without compromise, even if it means standing alone and being condemned or ridiculed. (Needed Redemptive Halakha, by Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, “Conversations”, September 2015)

What an inspiring and powerful way to view Judaism and the Torah.  The world is in need of Jewish rebels.