Medical Ethics: Can a Jew save a Non-Jew on Shabbat?
The attempt to reconcile Western morality and halakhah has become an important issue within the Jewish community. Is it possible that halakhah collides with general moral principles? This issue lays at the foundation of the question whether a Jew is allowed to violate Shabbat in order to save a Non-Jew. This lecture will explore both the halakhic and moral background of this issue and attempt to explain the relationship between halakhah and morality in this instance.
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LECTURE SERIES
- A Study of Halachic and Cultural Responses to Jewish Crisis and Tragedy
- American Jewish Translations of the Torah
- Biblical Studies
- Court Jews: Jews and Judaism on Trial Throughout the Centuries
- Crime: Does It pay?
- Development of Jewish Law
- Glimpses into the religious Lives of Early Modern European Jewry
- Halakhah in the Post-Shulhan Arukh Period
- History and Theology: The Thirteen Principles of Rambam
- History of the Yeshivot in LIthuania
- How Did the Rabbis of Early Modern Times Interpret the Bible?
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- Jews and Hollywood
- Jews and Hollywood: Part II
- Judaism Confronts Modernity: Jewish Experiences in the Nineteenth Century
- Medieval Biblical Commentators Respond to the Torah and Their Surroundings
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- Rabbinic Judaism
- Rabbinic Narratives
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