Compendium of Sources in Halacha and the Environment
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental law (Jewish law)
ISBN : 9781894797092
Author :
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental law (Jewish law)
ISBN : 9781894797092
Author : Lothes Biviano, Erin
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608336301
Author : Tanhum S. Yoreh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 143847671X
Winner of the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of Jewish Thought and Culture Bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, is considered to be an ecological ethical principle by contemporary Jewish environmentalists. Waste Not provides a comprehensive intellectual history of this concept, charting its evolution from the Bible through classical rabbinic literature, commentaries, codes of law, responsa, and the works of modern environmentalists. Tanhum S. Yoreh uses the methodology of tradition histories to identify pivotal moments in the development of the prohibition—in particular, its transition into an economic framework. He finds that bal tashḥit's earliest stages of conceptualization connect the prohibition against wastefulness with avoidance of self-harm. This connection is commonplace within contemporary environmental thought and a universalizing Jewish principle with important contributions to be made to Jewish and general societal ecological discourse. This narrative provides a foundation for understanding bal tashḥit as an environmental ethic for today and tomorrow.
Author : Geoffrey D. Claussen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438493924
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.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004444971
Middle East and North Africa: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts – too hot to handle? The volume offers an account of ideas, historical case studies and current debates on climate change and its consequences from perspectives of eco-theology, archeology, history, geography, political science and technology.
Author : Jeremy Benstein, PhD
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580236812
An accessible introduction to the Jewish understanding of the natural world and the key concepts central to Jewish environmentalism. At a time of growing concern about environmental issues, this book explores the relationship Jews have with the natural world and the ways in which Judaism contributes to contemporary social/environmental issues. It also shows readers the extent to which Judaism is part of the problem and how it can be part of the solution. Offering both an environmental interpretation of Judaism and a Jewish approach to environmentalism, this book examines: What environmentalism is. What the creation stories can teach us about who we are and what nature is. The relevance of Torah and traditional sources.
Author : Joseph W. Dellapenna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1402098677
According to a famous Talmudic story (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat: 31a), a gentile once approached Rabbi Hillel and asked to be taught the entire Torah while standing on one foot. Hillel replied, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself. That is the entire Torah. The rest is simply an explanation. Go and learn it!’ In much the same way, Jewish law can be described in one word—Torah. All the rest is simply an explanation. The Torah, also known as the Bible, the five books of Moses, and the Pentateuch, was written over 3,000 years ago. Since then, Jewish law has developed various interpretations and applications of the Torah, interpretations of those interpre- tions, and so on. Jewish law contains civil dictates as well as religious protocol. Problems that arose in the framework of religious life and problems surrounding civil relationships both found solutions in the same legal source—the Torah and the Halacha, the Jewish legal interpretations and rulings. This chapter on water law in the Jewish tradition provides insight into Jewish law and custom in general, and rules related to the protection of water sources in particular. One should not look, however, to find a written code of Jewish law, as there is none.
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Page : 820 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9780874951394
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780874951356
The Library owns the volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook from 1899 - current.
Author : Fred Rosner
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781583305928
Ethical issues in modern medicine are of great concern and interest to all physicians and health-care providers throughout the world, as well as to the public at large. Jewish scholars and ethicists have discussed medical ethics throughout Jewish history.