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Ethics at the Center
2024
Overview
Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N.
Dorff's pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five
decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends
ultimately on our conceptions of the nature of human beings and
God; how Jewish law, theology, prayer, history, and community
should also define and motivate Jewish responses to moral issues;
and how the honorable and divergent stances of Western philosophy
and other religions about moral living shed light on Judaism's
distinctive standpoints. From there Dorff applies Judaism's ethics
to real life: abortion post- Roe v. Wade , sexual
orientation and human dignity, avoiding harm in communication,
playing violent or defamatory video games, modern war ethics,
handling donations of ill-gotten gain after the fact. In conclusion
he explores how Jewish family and community, holidays and rituals,
theology, study, and law have moral import as well. Dorff's
personal introduction to each chapter reflects on why and when he
wrote its contents, its continuing relevance, and if-and if so,
how-he would now change what he wrote earlier. Readers will
experience not only his evolving ethical thought but many facets of
the person and the Jew that Dorff is today.
Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society,Jewish Publication Society
Subject
ISBN
0827615655, 9780827615656
