Covenantal imperatives : essays by Walter Wurzburger on Jewish law, thought and community /
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| Author / Creator: | Wurzburger, Walter S. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Jerusalem ; New York : Urim Publications, c2008. |
| Description: | 325 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8048444 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. On Ethics
- Foundations of Jewish Ethics
- What is Unique about Jewish Ethics?
- Covenantal Imperatives
- Darkhei Shalom
- Law as the Basis of a Moral Society
- Religion and Morality
- Part II. On Jewish Thought
- The Centrality of Virtue-Ethics in Maimonides
- Imitatio Dei in Maimonides's Sefer Ha-Mitzvot and the Mishneh Torah
- Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin
- Samson Raphael Hirsch's Doctrine of Inner Revelation
- Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik as a Posek of Postmodern Orthodoxy
- The Centrality of Creativity in the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- The Maimonidean Matrix of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Two-Tiered Ethics
- Imitatio Dei in the Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Part III. On Jewish Community
- Cooperation with Non-Orthodox Jews
- Confronting the Challenge of the Values of Modernity
- Centrist Orthodoxy: Ideology or Atmosphere?
- Religious Zionism: Compromise or Ideal?
- Part IV. On Jewish Life
- Alienation and Exile
- Orthodox Judaism and Human Purpose
- A Jewish Theology and Philosophy of the Sabbath
- Meta-Halakhic Propositions
- Tradition as a Way to the Future: A Jewish Perspective
- The Faith of the Jewish People
- On the Authority in the Halakhah
- Halakhah: The Tensions between the Claims of Tradition and the Claims of the Self
- Pluralism and the Halakhah
- Credits