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Judaism - Ethics, Society, Rituals: Jewish affirmations about God and humans intersect in the concept of Torah as the ordering of human existence in the direction of the divine. Humans are ethically responsible creatures who are responsive to the presence of God in nature and in history.
Jewish Ethics: Some Basic Concepts and Ideas. The biblical text and the Rabbinic tradition provide the universal search for an ethical life with passion and some unique concepts. By the editors of the Encyclopedia of Judaism
Jewish ethics investigates both theoretical and practical questions of what Jews can and should do in the world. It involves weaving together theology, philosophy, and law—the classic triumvirate for religious ethics—as well as lore, history, science, and sociology, among other facets of human knowledge and experience.
Much of Jewish ethics exists in the form of rules and commands: halakhah (Jewish law). But there are other features of the moral life that cannot be prescribed by rules. There is “the right and the good,” emphasized by Ramban. There is an ethic of virtue, set out by Maimonides in Hilkhot Deot.
As the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an open, argumentative mode that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of all sides of a question.
Ethical thought in Judaism is as tightly bound to theology as it is to law. The involvement of God in moral issues gives Jewish ethical thinking a passion and urgency beyond what is to be found in many other traditions, ancient and modern alike.
ethical theories are often categorized according to the emphasis they place upon one or the other of these terms. The object of this paper is to determine 1) whether there are equivalents of these terms in biblical and rabbinic Hebrew and whether they similarly incorporate the important differences that philosophical
