[PDF] Jewish Ethical Values eBook

Author : Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307794458

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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whole spectrum of Judaism's sacred writings to give us a manual on how to lead a decent, kind, and honest life in a morally complicated world. "An absolutely superb book: the most practical, most comprehensive guide to Jewish values I know." —Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People Telushkin speaks to the major ethical issues of our time, issues that have, of course, been around since the beginning. He offers one or two pages a day of pithy, wise, and easily accessible teachings designed to be put into immediate practice. The range of the book is as broad as life itself: • The first trait to seek in a spouse (Day 17) • When, if ever, lying is permitted (Days 71-73) • Why acting cheerfully is a requirement, not a choice (Day 39) • What children don't owe their parents (Day 128) • Whether Jews should donate their organs (Day 290) • An effective but expensive technique for curbing your anger (Day 156) • How to raise truthful children (Day 298) • What purchases are always forbidden (Day 3) In addition, Telushkin raises issues with ethical implications that may surprise you, such as the need to tip those whom you don't see (Day 109), the right thing to do when you hear an ambulance siren (Day 1), and why wasting time is a sin (Day 15). Whether he is telling us what Jewish tradition has to say about insider trading or about the relationship between employers and employees, he provides fresh inspiration and clear guidance for every day of our lives.

Author : Dr. Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580238351

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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 : Shmuly Yanklowitz
Publisher : Derusha Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Jewish ethics
ISBN : 9781935104148

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We make religion irrelevant when we lock it up in the house of prayer - when we keep religion away from the streets. If we want Judaism to matter in today's world, we must respond - deeply - to society's call. The Torah is a living tradition that we need to bring to the most urgent social issues of our time. We must fully enter the public arena, recognizing that our common responsibilities transcend our particular paths. The essence of spiritual life shines at the core of all the crude and harsh realities we see every day - and when we ignore these realities, we are like blind fish completely unaware of the very water in which they swim. Jewish Ethics & Social Justice is a collection of sweeping meditations on how to make Judaism universally relevant again. Explore hot social issues - global hunger, prison reform, worker rights, and more - through the eyes of the Jewish ethical tradition. Learn about the core values of Jewish activism - discover a deeper connection to the timeless issu

Author : Dr. Seymour J. Cohen
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580238459

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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 : Nachum Amsel
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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This is a book about contemprorary issues, each of which is addressed from an Orthodox Jewish perspective in two to three pages.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827606647

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The Jewish Moral Virtues is a book of musar - practical ethical wisdom applied to contemporary life. In form and purpose, it is parallel to William Bennett's bestselling Book of Virtues. Authors Borowitz and Schwartz synthesize traditional scholarship from a wide range of Jewish sources with personal insights into modern ethical dilemmas. Traditionally, Jewish ethical teachers have been concerned with law or general guidance for a good life, i.e., virtue, rather than philosophical meditations upon specific issues. This collection is structured upon the twenty-four virtues selected by a thirteenth-century Roman Jew, Yehiel ben Yekutiel, including trustworthiness, lovingkindness, compassion, generosity, charity, humility, and pure-heartedness, among others, and expands to include wisdom from the ancient rabbis, medieval philosophers, and Yehiel's successors over the past seven centuries.

Author : Neal Scheindlin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 0827613237

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The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook guides teachers and students of all ages and backgrounds in mining classical and modern Jewish texts to inform decision-making on hard choices.

Author : Eugene Korn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Jewish ethics
ISBN : 9781602804555

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"Can Jewish tradition face our modern understanding of justice, equality, and human progress? The author addresses ancient and modern moral questions. Building on biblical and rabbinic traditions, he analyzes how Jewish ethics relates to Jewish law, fairness, equality, and compassion, as well as the challenge of religious violence. This provides food for thought on subjects ranging from gender, freedom, and military ethics to Jewish particularism and contemporary universalism"--

Author : Moses L. Pava
Publisher : Orthodox Forum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765760562

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The Orthodox Forum, convened by Dr. Norman Lamm, President of Yeshiva University, meets each year to consider major issues of concern to the Jewish community. Forum participants from throughout the world, including academicians in both Jewish and secular fields, rabbis, rashei yeshivah, Jewish educators, and Jewish communal professionals, gather in conference as a think tank to discuss and critique each other's original papers, examining different aspects of a central theme. The purpose of the Forum is to create and disseminate a new and vibrant Torah literature addressing the critical issues facing Jewry today. The main idea upon which the essays in this book are built is that the power and success of business is ultimately based on one's beliefs about life's meaning. It is no exaggeration to suggest that corporate success is set in motion and encouraged by a set of core ethics values shared by managers, employees, and stockholders. This book reflects the unflinching belief that traditional Jewish sources provide useful and practical paradigms and solutions to many important issues facing the modern business manager. Jewish business ethics must begin by taking both business and Jewish ethics seriously.

Author : Ronald H. Isaacs
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881256529

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A collection of rabbinic and biblical sayings and quotations on a variety of topics, dealing primarily with responsibilities to people and animals and care of the earth, to be used as discussion materials for exploration of personal values.