Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed WordHava Tirosh-Samuelson Jewish ecological discourse has shown that Judaism harbors deep concern for the well-being of the natural world. However, the movement has not articulated a Jewish theology of nature, nor has it submitted the sources of Judaism to a systematic, philosophical examination. This volume intends to contribute to the nascent discourse on Judaism and ecology by clarifying diverse conceptions of nature in Jewish thought and by using the insights of Judaism to formulate a constructive Jewish theology of nature. The twenty-one contributors consider the Bible and rabbinic literature, examine the relationship between the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of revelation in the context of natural law, and wrestle with questions of nature and morality. They look at nature in the Jewish mystical tradition, and they face the challenges to Jewish environmental activism caused by the tension between the secular nature of the environmental discourse and Jewish religious commitments. |
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... Besht and the Maggid . I propose to proceed on the basis of what has been attributed to the Besht , which is what Buber himself had to go on . Before turning to the Besht himself , however , I want to make a comment about the other ...
... Besht and a great fan of R. Ya'akov Yoseph . In his work Divrei Mosheh he takes a clearly non - Buberian position on ... Besht to have been as Buber portrays him . We would have to be- lieve then that , although the Besht was a true ...
... Besht . Buber at times seems to have misunderstood some of the Besht's alleged sayings , in ways that accord with Buber's conception of Hasidism . Here are two examples : In Hasidism and Modern Man , Buber included a chapter entitled ...
Contents
Preface | xi |
Introduction Judaism and the Natural World | xxxiii |
Constructive Jewish Theology of Nature | xxxix |
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