Commandment and Community, livre ebook

Includes contemporary Jewish political practice, and both systematic and historical treatments of issues in Jewish political theory and legal thought.

Includes contemporary Jewish political practice, and both systematic and historical treatments of issues in Jewish political theory and legal thought.

This book is divided into two parts, "Judaism and Political Praxis" and "Halakha and the Political Order." The first part is concerned with issues at the interface of Jewish political theory and practice: a Jewish philosophy of justice, the formulation of a practical philosophy based on traditional Jewish sources, and the need for greater political activism among Jews. The second part presents both systematic and historical studies. It includes the strategies used to determine the meaning and intelligibility of texts and norms in the rabbinic tradition, trends in the history of Jewish political thought, and the connectedness of law and morality in traditional Judaism.

Introduction

PART 1. JUDAISM AND POLITICAL PRAXIS

Toward a Jewish Philosophy of Justice

LennE.Goodman

Is a Jewish Practical Philosophy Possible?

OliverLeaman

Reason in Action: The "Practicality" of Maimonides's Guide

DanielH.Frank

Jewish Tradition and National Policy

ElliotN.Dorff

PART 2. HALAKHA AND THE POLITICAL ORDER

Underdetermination of Meaning by the Talmudic Text

AryehBotwinick

Nachmanides's Conception of Ta'amei Mitzvot
and Its Maimonidean Background

JosefStern

The Attitude Toward Democracy in Medieval
Jewish Philosophy

AbrahamMelamed

Abravanel and the Jewish Republican Ethos

ReuvenKimelman

Spinoza's Challenge to the Doctrine of Election

DavidNovak

Morality and War: A Critique of Bleich's Oracular Halakha

NoamJ.Zohar

ResponsetoNoamZohar

J.DavidBleich

ReplytoDavidBleich

NoamJ.Zohar

Contributors

Index