Ethics

Ethics of the Fathers:

Chapter III: Food for thought

We live in a world that regards food, along with sexuality, as ends in themselves rather than as means. Judaism says something else about our needs.

Ethics of the Fathers:

True Freedom

Rebbe Yehoshua Ben Levi taught that only those involved in Torah study are truly free. How?

Ethics of the Fathers:

Earning our lives

Chapter 3 in a series.

Ethics of the Fathers:

What we want

The Gemara says that “one who says that they have only Torah, lacks even Torah.” What besides Torah does “having Torah” depend upon?

Ethics of the Fathers

The foundation(s) of our world

The first Shabbat after Passover we begin reading a chapter a week of Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the Fathers, a 6-chapter compilation of teachings and wise maxims found in Tractate Nezikin. Introduction and chapter 1.

'Ethics of our Fighters' author:

'We have to do everything to protect our soldiers'

Rabbi Shlomo Brody, who wrote about the morals and ethics that guide the IDF in their military operations, claims in an interview with Arutz Sheva, that we must not sacrifice our own soldiers to protect enemy civilians.

Epiphanies on Islamic Ethics

Muslim societies do not just breed violence and poverty, but also a dogmatic sense of superiority grounded on nothing but wishful thinking. However, some Islamic virtues should set Israelis thinking. Op-ed.