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Love Your Neighbor and Yourself A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics

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  • Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff (author)
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About the Book

A leading ethicist suggests ways to take the moral high road in one’s personal life.

In this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism’s distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community. Dorff addresses specific moral issues that affect our personal lives: privacy, particularly at work as it is affected by the Internet and other modern technologies; sex in and outside of marriage; family matters, such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, stepfamilies, divorce, parenting, and family violence; homosexuality; justice, mercy, and forgiveness; and charitable acts and social action.

View the full series, A Jewish Approach to Modern Ethics.

Praise

One of the most admirable characteristics of all of Dorff’s writing is clarity and directness . . . This is a wonderful book for the beginner who wants to understand Jewish tradition concerning personal ethics.

—Shofar

Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff

Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff is rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at American Jewish University. His many books on Jewish ethics and law include Modern Conservative Judaism (JPS, 2018), For the Love of God and People (JPS, 2007), Love Your Neighbor and Yourself (JPS, 2003), Matters of Life and Death (JPS, 1998), and the National Jewish Book Award–winner To Do the Right and the Good (JPS, 2002).

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