The Environment in Jewish Law

The Environment in Jewish Law
Author: Walter Jacob
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800735065

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.

The Environment in Jewish Law

The Environment in Jewish Law
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.

Judaism and Ecology

Judaism and Ecology
Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This volume intends to contribute to the nascent discourse on Judaism and ecology by clarifying diverse conceptions of nature in Jewish thought and by using the insights of Judaism to formulate a constructive Jewish theology of nature.

Ecology and the Jewish Spirit

Ecology and the Jewish Spirit
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.

An Introduction to Jewish Law

An Introduction to Jewish Law
Author: François-Xavier Licari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1108421970

This is the first book to present a systematic and synthetic introduction to Jewish law.

Waste Not

Waste Not
Author: Tanhum YOREH
Publisher: Suny Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781438476704

Traces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.

Defending the Human Spirit

Defending the Human Spirit
Author: Warren Goldstein (Rabbi.)
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781583307328

Expanded from the Chief Rabbi of South Africa's doctoral thesis, Defending the Human Spirit explores the Torah's legal system compared to Western law. Using real court cases to demonstrate the similarities and differences between Judaism's view of defending the vulnerable and Western legal practice, Rabbi Goldstein places halacha as truly ahead of its time. Covering such diverse topics as political tyranny, oppression of women, crime, and poverty, Defending the Human Spirit is fascinating, informative and inspiring reading.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology
Author: Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2006-11-09
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0195178726

Ecologically oriented visions of God, the Sacred, the Earth, and human beings. The proposed handbook will serve as the definitive overview of these exciting new developments. Divided into three main sections, the books essays will reflect the three dominant dimensions of the field. Part I will explore

The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics
Author: Aaron Levine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2010-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199780560

The interaction of Judaism and economics encompasses many different dimensions. Much of this interaction can be explored through the way in which Jewish law accommodates and even enhances commercial practice today and in past societies. From this context, The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics explores how Judaism as a religion and Jews as a people relate to the economic sphere of life in modern society as well as in the past. Bringing together an astonishingly strong group of top scholars, the volume approaches the subject from a variety of angles, providing one of the most comprehensive, well-rounded, and authoritative accounts of the intersections of Judaism and economics yet produced. Aaron Levine first offers a brief overview of the nature and development of Jewish law as a legal system, then presents essays from a variety of angles and areas of expertise. The book offers contributions on economic theory in the bible and in the Talmud; on the interaction between Jewish law, ethics, modern society, and public policy; then presents illuminating explorations of Judaism throughout economic history and the ways in which economics has influenced Jewish history. The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics at last offers an extensive and welcome resource by leading scholars and economists on the vast and delightfully complex relationship between economics and Judaism.