Jewish Ethics, Philosophy and Mysticism
Author: Louis Jacobs
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Louis Jacobs
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ben Ezra Green
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780874410129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dr. Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2015-07-20
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1580238351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With insightful commentary, passion and expertise, Rabbis Sherwin and Cohen guide us through selections from classic Jewish ethical literature, offering clear explanations of the historic context of each writing and thoughtful applications of their wisdom on the problems we grapple with today.
Author: Dr. Seymour J. Cohen
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2015-08-10
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1580238459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With insightful commentary, passion and expertise, Rabbis Sherwin and Cohen guide us through selections from classic Jewish ethical literature, offering clear explanations of the historic context of each writing and thoughtful applications of their wisdom on the problems we grapple with today.
Author: Byron L .Sherwin
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2000-12-04
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1580237673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic texts of Jewish ethical literature—works little known to most of us—now available for personal study. This one-of-a-kind book brings Jewish ethical literature from ancient and medieval worlds straight into our twenty-first-century lives.
Author: Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780815606246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this highly provocative and informed work, Byron L. Sherwin, one of the leading Jewish ethicists of our time, demonstrates how the wisdom of the past—found in classical texts that form Jewish religious tradition—can forcefully address the moral perplexities of the present. In setting out a contemporary agenda for Jewish ethics, Sherwin debunks common misconceptions about Jewish ethics and distinguishes between the ethics of Judaism and various forms of secular and religious ethics. He shows, for example, how the ethics of Judaism and the ethics of Jews often are at odds, how the Judeo-Christian ethic is an obsolete myth, and how Jewish and G:hristian ethics radically differ both in terms of their theological assumptions and in their applied methodologies. Sherwin delineates a methodology for Jewish ethics, which he applies to a wide variety of issues such as health and healing, euthanasia, reproductive biotechnology, cloning, parent-child relationships, economic justice, repentance or "moral rehabilitation," and the relationship between humans and machines. Drawing on a wide range of biblical, rabbinical, Jewish philosophical and kabbalistic sources, Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century links the biblical term "image of God" to moral freedom, human creativity and the challenge of becoming God's "partner in creation" and a coauthor of the Torah.
Author: Joseph Dan
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781568215631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics is a ground-breaking study of an ideological miracle, a tale of seven hundred years of diverse Jewish theological creativity. Many extreme, radical, and even seemingly heretical schools of thought were intergrated into a constructive, traditional Jewish ethics within the framework of Hebrew ethical literature. The ability of Jewish ethics to absorb and sustain conflicting ideas, which originated in schools that fought each other fiercely, presents a fascinating chapter in the history of Jewish ideas.
Author: Geoffrey D. Claussen
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1438493924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning with the Bible and culminating with twenty-first-century feminism and environmentalism, Jewish Virtue Ethics explores thirty-five influential Jewish approaches to character and virtue. Virtue ethics has been a burgeoning field of moral inquiry among academic philosophers in the postwar period. Although Jewish ethics has also flourished as an academic (and practical) field, attention to the role of virtue in Jewish thought has been underdeveloped. This volume seeks to illuminate its centrality not only for readers primarily interested in Jewish ethics but also for readers who take other approaches to virtue ethics, including within the Western virtue ethics tradition. The original essays written for this volume provide valuable sources for philosophical reflection.
Author: Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After establishing a vision of and a methodology for doing Jewish theology, that vision and methodology are applied to a number of issues of major theological concern. These include: love and law, awe of God, the problem of evil, Holocaust theology, theologies of the human body, theological ethics, and eschatology. Utilizing a remarkable range of classical sources from Hebrew Scriptures to Hasidim, Talmud to Jewish philosophy, medieval Jewish mysticism to contemporary political theology, this volume demonstrates how theology is an artform informed by erudite scholarship and honed by analytic skill.
Author: Alan L. Mittleman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1405189428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the present day. Offers an engaging and thoughtful account of Jewish ethics Brings together and discusses a broad range of historical sources covering two millennia of writings and conversations Combines current scholarship with original insights Written by a major internationally recognized scholar of Jewish philosophy and ethics