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Explorations in Jewish religious ethics / Alexandre Safran ; [translated from the French by M. Pater and E.M. Sandle].
- Title
- Explorations in Jewish religious ethics / Alexandre Safran ; [translated from the French by M. Pater and E.M. Sandle].
- Author
- Safran, Alexandre.
- Publication
- Jerusalem ; Nanuet, New York : Feldheim, 1999.
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- Description
- xiv, 295 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published as: Esquisse d'une éthique religieuse juive (Editions du Cerf, Paris, 1997) ; Éthique juive et modernité (Editions Albin Michel, Paris, 1998). With additional material.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-295)
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A Jewish religious ethic : an overview -- Morality and society in modern times -- Naḥmanides (Ramban) and the questionings of our time : a profile of a Jewish religious ethic -- Rabbi Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna, and Rabbi Ḥayyim of Volozhin : the great ethical trends of their school as mirrored in the consensus and polemics with Hasidism -- Reflections on the religious-ethical function of miracles, with reference to Ḥanukkah and Pesaḥ -- Observations on the Jewish festivals : their religious-ethical significance -- Liberations and liberty : thoughts on the religious-ethical message of the festival of Pesaḥ -- Yom Kippur in the synagogue : the individual and the holy congregation - in unison with the community of Israel - standing before God -- Yom Kippur : the essence of Jewish time and Jewish being -- Teshuvah : restoring wasted time -- Teshuvah : overcoming time's irreversibility -- Teshuvah : a revival with the force of continuity.
- ISBN
- 0873068939
- OCLC
- 41557920
- SCSB-11460219
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library