The Environment In Jewish Law
Download The Environment In Jewish Law full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Environment In Jewish Law ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Walter Jacob |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2003-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1571814310 |
Environmental concerns are at the top of the agenda around the world. Judaism, like the other world religions, only rarely raised issues concerning the environment in the past. This means that modern Judaism, the halakhic tradition no less than others, must build on a slim foundation in its efforts to give guidance. The essays in this volume mark the beginning of a new effort to face questions and formulate answers of vital importance.
Author | : Manfred Gerstenfeld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Jacob |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781571814319 |
Environmental concerns are at the top of the agenda around the world. Judaism, like the other world religions, only rarely raised issues concerning the environment in the past. This means that modern Judaism, the halakhic tradition no less than others, must build on a slim foundation in its efforts to give guidance. The essays in this volume mark the beginning of a new effort to face questions and formulate answers of vital importance.
Author | : Jeremy Benstein |
Publisher | : Jewish Lights Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 158023268X |
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 | : Ellen Bernstein |
Publisher | : Jewish Lights Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781683360407 |
Innovative contributors bring us a richer understanding of the long-neglected themes of nature that are woven through the biblical creation story, ancient texts, traditional law, the holiday cycles, prayer, mitzvot (good deeds) and community.
Author | : Soloveichik Chayim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 200? |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Naḥum Raḳover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Ecology |
ISBN | : |
Jewish sources regarding to environmental protection.
Author | : David Novak |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1998-11-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 052163170X |
This 1998 book presents a theory of natural law, significant for the study of Judaism, philosophy and comparative ethics.
Author | : Tanhum S. Yoreh |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438476698 |
Traces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement. 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. Yoreh’s narrative provides a foundation for understanding bal tashḥit as an environmental ethic for today and tomorrow. “The book’s argument, well grounded as it is in firm textual evidence, displays a sound familiarity with rabbinic sources and communicates it in a manner suitable for readers whose familiarity with those sources may vary. There is a drama implicit in the presentation, having to do with the religiously and environmentally pressing question of how Jewish sources show up under close historical and environmental examination.” — Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas
Author | : Bernard S Jackson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-12-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1134332459 |
First Published in 1988. The Annual is published under the auspices of The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University School of Law, in conjunction with the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. This volume concludes the symposium on the philosophy of Jewish law which started in Volume 6. It concludes with a response by the late Julius Stone to most of the preceding articles. This edition looks at natural law and Judaism, Halakhah and the Covenant; Jewish attitudes towards the taking of human life; mortality; and a study of Solomon Freehof.