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

Dorff, Rabbi Elliot N.

ISBN 10: 0827607598 / ISBN 13: 9780827607590

Published by The Jewish Publication Society, 2003

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics
• Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827607598
• ISBN 13: 9780827607590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

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 the Author

Elliot N. Dorff, a Conservative rabbi, is Rector and Distinguished Professor of 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 a co-editor of Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary.