Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics - Softcover

Dorff, Rabbi Elliot N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082760825X ISBN 13: 9780827608252

Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY, 2006

Synopsis

A leading ethicist suggests ways to take the moral high road in one's personal life.

In this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community. Dorff addresses specific moral issues that affect our personal lives: privacy, particularly at work as it is affected by the Internet and other modern technologies; sex in and outside of marriage; family matters, such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, stepfamilies, divorce, parenting, and family violence; homosexuality; justice, mercy, and forgiveness; and charitable acts and social action.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A new paperback edition of the third in Rabbi Dorff's series of books on modern Jewish ethics, begun with Matters of Life and Death, and followed by To Do the Right and the Good.

About the Author:

Elliot N. Dorff, a Conservative rabbi, is Rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy at the University of Judaism. He was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, with a dissertation in moral theory. He has written over 150 articles on Jewish thought, law, and ethics, and eight books, including two JPS volumes—Matters of Life and Death (1998) and To Do the Right and the Good (2002). He is co-editor of Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary.

About this edition

• Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 082760825X
• ISBN 13: 9780827608252
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384