Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal EthicsIn this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community. Dorff addresses specific moral issues that affect our personal lives: privacy, particularly at work as it is affected by the Internet and other modern technologies; sex in and outside of marriage; family matters, such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, stepfamilies, divorce, parenting, and family violence; homosexuality; justice, mercy, and forgiveness; and charitable acts and social action. |
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For all its insistence on justice and earning forgiveness, Judaism is ultimately a very positive religion. The anthem of the State of Israel is Hatikvah, “The Hope,” and the Jewish tradition embodies many forms ...
For all its insistence on justice and earning forgiveness, Judaism is ultimately a very positive religion. The anthem of the State of Israel is Hatikvah, “The Hope,” and the Jewish tradition embodies many forms ...
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Positively, though, Reform methodology empowers individual Jews to wrestle with the Jewish tradition themselves, and it encourages—even demands—that Jews learn more about their tradition in order to carry out this task.
Positively, though, Reform methodology empowers individual Jews to wrestle with the Jewish tradition themselves, and it encourages—even demands—that Jews learn more about their tradition in order to carry out this task.
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Finally, some positive duties or prohibitions are affirmed by some religions and not by others. As a result of these variations, each religion presents a picture of reality and of the ideal that is distinctive in degree or kind.
Finally, some positive duties or prohibitions are affirmed by some religions and not by others. As a result of these variations, each religion presents a picture of reality and of the ideal that is distinctive in degree or kind.
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Because of its view of the body and its central story of Jesus dying on the cross, pain plays a positive role in much Christian thought. The closest Judaism comes to that attitude are the rules governing Yom Kippur and historical fast ...
Because of its view of the body and its central story of Jesus dying on the cross, pain plays a positive role in much Christian thought. The closest Judaism comes to that attitude are the rules governing Yom Kippur and historical fast ...
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Under the first law, we have a positive duty to come to the rescue of another person's life or property, and that would argue for divulging whatever is necessary to accomplish those aims.55 Under the second law, though, ...
Under the first law, we have a positive duty to come to the rescue of another person's life or property, and that would argue for divulging whatever is necessary to accomplish those aims.55 Under the second law, though, ...
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Sommario
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| 33 | |
This Is My Beloved This Is My Friend Sex and the Family | 73 |
Parents and Children | 127 |
Family and Violence | 155 |
The Elements of Forgiveness | 207 |
Hope and Destiny | 231 |
Notes | 252 |
The Interaction of Judaism with Morality Defining Motivating and Educating a Moral Person and Society | 311 |
Notes to Appendix | 345 |
Bibliography of Cited Modern Sources | 347 |
Index | 361 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics |
| Autore | Elliot N. Dorff |
| Edizione | ristampa |
| Editore | Jewish Publication Society, 2006 |
| ISBN | 082760825X, 9780827608252 |
| Lunghezza | 384 pagine |
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