These maps may both stimulate a journey and may become embellished as a result of a journey. In this way, that which is received is augmented and developed. That which is continually received and augmented over time becomes a tradition. In addition, we should know something about some of those who have taken these journeys. In other words, our second task is to prepare ourselves to be able to read the maps of these journeys.
Different journeys aspire to reach different destinations.
Our third task is to discern where these journeys hope to lead. For anyone curious about the meaning of life and eager to set out on an intellectual and spiritual adventure to elicit it. Delineates a methodology for Jewish ethics which is applied to a wide variety of issues such as health and healing, euthanasia, reproductive biotechnology, cloning, parent-child relationships, economic justice, and the relations between human and machines. This book examines Judaism in its own terms with an eye toward informing modern Judaism of itself and applying Jewish learning to the conceptual and practical problems confronting contemporary Judaism. Issues such as the nature of ethics, the philosophy of law, peace and war, and bar mitzva are treated.