Explorations in Jewish religious ethics
By: Alexandre Safran ; [translated from the French by M. Pater and E.M. Sandle]
Publisher: Feldheim
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Jerusalem; Nanuet, New York
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Jewish ethics; Jewish way of life; Fasts and feasts; Judaism; Repentance
Notes: Originally published as: Esquisse d'une éthique religieuse juive (Editions du Cerf, Paris, 1997) ; Éthique juive et modernité (Editions Albin Michel, Paris, 1998). With additional material.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-295)
Table of contents: title: A Jewish religious ethic : an overview; title: Morality and society in modern times; title: Naḥmanides (Ramban) and the questionings of our time : a profile of a Jewish religious ethic; title: Rabbi Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna, and Rabbi Ḥayyim of Volozhin : the great ethical trends of their school as mirrored in the consensus and polemics with Hasidism; title: Reflections on the religious-ethical function of miracles, with reference to Ḥanukkah and Pesaḥ; title: Observations on the Jewish festivals : their religious-ethical significance; title: Liberations and liberty : thoughts on the religious-ethical message of the festival of Pesaḥ; title: Yom Kippur in the synagogue : the individual and the holy congregation - in unison with the community of Israel - standing before God; title: Yom Kippur : the essence of Jewish time and Jewish being; title: Teshuvah : restoring wasted time; title: Teshuvah : overcoming time's irreversibility; title: Teshuvah : a revival with the force of continuity.