The Jewish family ethics textbook / Rabbi Neal Scheindlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheindlin, Rabbi Neal, author.

Series:

JPS essential Judaism series.

JPS Essential Judaism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish ethics--Textbooks.

Jewish ethics.

Families--Moral and ethical aspects--Textbooks.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, [2021]

Summary:

The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook guides teachers and students of all ages and backgrounds in mining classical and modern Jewish texts to inform decision making on hard choices..

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

How to Use This Book

Using the Book in a Classroom Setting

Using the Book without a Teacher

Introduction

Theories of Ethical Decision-Making

How Jews Approach Ethical Problems

Works and History of Classical Jewish Literature

Text 1-Deut. 17:8-11

A Brief Jewish Lexicon

Text 2-Eiruvin 13b

Classical Literature as Understood by Modern Jews

1. Parents and Children

Case Study #1: Who Chooses Where to Go to College?

Case Study #2: Caring for a Parent with Dementia

Case Study #3: Distancing from an Abusive Parent

Text Study #1: Children's Twin Obligations to Parents-Honor and Reverence

Text 1a-Exod. 20:12

Text 1b-Deut. 5:16

Text 2-Lev. 19:3

Text 3-Mekhilta, Massekhta de-BaḤodesh 8

Text 4a-Kiddushin 30b

Text 4b-Kiddushin 30b (continued)

Text 5-Kiddushin 30b-31a

Text Study #2: The Mitzvot Children Owe to Parents

Text 6-Kiddushin 31b

Text 7a-Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 240:2

Text 7b-Rashi on Lev. 19:3

Text 7c-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Rebellion 6:11

Text 8a-Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 240:4-5

Text 8b-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Rebellion 6:10

Text 8c-Golinkin, "Institutionalizing Parents with Alzheimer's Disease"

Text 9a-Kiddushin 31a-b

Text 9b-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Rebellion 6:7

Text 9c-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Rebellion 6:7 (continued)

Text 9d-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Rebellion 6:8

Text 10a-Midrash Tanḥuma Eikev 3

Text 10b-Kiddushin 31b

Text 11a-Dorff, Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Text 11b-Diamant, Choosing a Jewish Life

Text Study #3: Parents' Responsibilities to Children

Text 12a-Kiddushin 29a

Text 12b-Nevins, "Between Parents and Children"

Text 13-Kiddushin 29a-b

Text Study #4: Problems in the Parent-Child Relationship.

Text 14-Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 240:18

Text 15-Dratch, "Honoring Abusive Parents"

Text 16a-Jacob, "Responsibility of Children to Their Parents"

Text 16b-Nevins, "Between Parents and Children"

Conclusion

2. Honesty

Case Study #1: Cheating on an Exam

Case Study #2: Potential Plagiarism

Case Study #3: Withholding Part of the Truth from a Prospective Employer

Text Study #1: Truth Telling and Its Limits

Text 1a-Exod. 20:13

Text 1b-Exod. 23:7

Text 1c-Lev. 19:11

Text 1d-Mecklenburg, HaKetav VeHaKabbalah on Exod. 23:7

Text 2-Ketubot 16b-17a

Text 3a-Yevamot 65b

Text 3b-Bava Metzia 23b-24a

Text 3c-Mishnah Nedarim 3:4

Text Study #2: Whistleblowing and Rebuke

Text 4-Tosefta Bava Kama 7:3

Text 5a-Leff, "Whistleblowing"

Text 5b-Lev. 19:17

Text 5c-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Personal Qualities 6:7

Text 5d-Lev. 19:14

Text 5e-Sifra Kedoshim 2:14

Text 6-Shulḥan Arukh, Hoshen Mishpat 388:9

Text 7-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Robbery and Lost Objects 11:3

Text Study #3: Crediting Others for Use of Their Intellectual Property

Text 8-Tanḥuma Bemidbar 22

Text 9a-Gittin 10b

Text 9b-Berakhot 5b

Text 9c-Tosefta Bava Kama 7:3

Text 10a-Deut. 19:14

Text 10b-Bava Batra 21b

Text 11a-Shulḥan Arukh, Hoshen Mishpat 203:1

Text 11b-Arukh HaShulḥan, Hoshen Mishpat 212:3

Text 11c-CCAR Responsum, "Copyright and the Internet"

3. Social Media

Case Study #1: Social Media Insults

Case Study #2: Online Privacy

Text Study #1: Permitted and Forbidden Speech

Text 1a-Lev. 19:16

Text 1b-Rashi on Lev. 19:16

Text 2-Arakhin 15b

Text 3a-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Personal Qualities 7:2

Text 3b-Ḥafetz Ḥayyim 1:8

Text 3c-Ḥafetz Ḥayyim 3:3

Text 4-Yoma 4b

Text 5-Ḥafetz Ḥayyim 10:1

Text 6-Student, "A Torah Guide for the Digital Age"

Text Study #2: Privacy.

Text 7-Mishnah Bava Batra 3:7

Bava Batra 60a

Text 8a-Kurshan, Comments on Bava Batra 2a-b

Text 8b-Dorff, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself

Text 8c-Samlan, "The Ten Commandments of Social Media"

4. Sex and Intimacy

Case Study #1: Four Ideas about Jewish Sexual Ethics

Case Study #2: LGBTQ Orientations

Text Study #1: The Two Inclinations

Text 1a-Gen. 1:31

Text 1b-Ramban, Iggeret HaKodesh

Text 2-Genesis Rabbah 9:7

Text Study #2: Sex within Marriage

Text 3-Mishnah Ketubot 5:6

Ketubot 62b

Text 4-Nedarim 20a-b

Text 5a-Eiruvin 100b

Text 5b-Shulḥan Arukh, Even HaEzer 25:2

Text Study #3: The Power of Sexual Desire

Text 6-Kiddushin 81a

Text 7a-Mishnah Kiddushin 1:1

Text 7b-Yevamot 61b

Text 7c-Gittin 81b

Text 7d-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Marriage 1:4

Text Study #4: Sexual Values

Text 8a-Birkat Eirusin, Betrothal Blessing from the Wedding Ceremony

Text 8b-Blessing Six of the Wedding Ceremony

Text 9a-Novak Winer, Sacred Choices

Text 9b-Salkowitz, "Reform Jewish Sexual Values"

Text 10-Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai

Text Study #5: LGBTQ Sexuality

Text 11a-Lev. 18:22

Text 11b-Lev. 20:13

Text 12-Sanhedrin 54a-b

Text 13a-Shulḥan Arukh, Even HaEzer 24:1

Text 13b-Bayyit Ḥadash on Even HaEzer 24:1

Text 14a-Nedarim 51a with Rashi's commentary

Text 14b-Torah Temimah on Lev. 18:22

Text 14c-Havrelock, "Acharei Mot: Boundaries of Rituals: The Sanctuary and the Body"

Text 15-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Intercourse 21:8

Text 16-Berakhot 19b

Text 17-Dorff, Nevins, and Reisner, "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah"

Text 18-Reconstructionist Commission on Homosexuality, "Homosexuality and Judaism"

Text 19-Litman, "'Bisexual' Identity: A Guide for the Perplexed"

5. Medical Ethics at the Beginning of Life.

Case Study #1: Who Counts as a Parent?

Case Study #2: Choosing Single Parenthood

Case Study #3: Surrogate Motherhood

Case Study #4: Parenthood through Cloning

Text Study #1: The Mitzvah of Procreation

Text 1-Gen. 1:27-28

Text 2-Yevamot 63b

Text 3-Mishnah Yevamot 6:6

Text 4-Dorff, Matters of Life and Death

Text 5a-Jacob, "Jewish Marriage without Children"

Text 5b-Panitz, "Must a Jew Have Children?A Conservative Answer"

Text Study #2: Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Text 6-Ḥagigah 14b-15a

Text 7-Mishneh LaMelekh on Mishneh Torah, Laws of Matrimony 15:4

Text 8a-Ramban on Lev. 18:20

Text 8b-Waldenberg, Responsa Tzitz Eliezer

Text 9-Broyde, "The Establishment of Paternity in Jewish and American Law"

Text 10-Grossman, "Choosing Parenthood"

Text Study #3: Surrogate Motherhood

Text 11a-Gen. 16:1-4,15

Text 11b-Gen. 30:1-6

Text 11c-Spitz, "On the Use of Birth Surrogates"

Text 12a-Gellman, "The Ethics of Surrogate Motherhood"

Text 12b-Freundel, Contemporary Orthodox Judaism's Response to Modernity

Text 12c-Jakobovits, Jewish Medical Ethics

Text 13a-Jacob, "Surrogate Mother"

Text 13b-Spitz, "On the Use of Birth Surrogates" (continued)

Text 13c-Loike and Tendler, "Gestational Surrogacy"

Text 13d-State of Israel Ministry of Health, "Surrogacy in Israel"

Text Study #4: Parenthood through Cloning

Text 14-Sanhedrin 65b

Text 15a-Menachem HaMeiri on Sanhedrin 67b

Text 15b-Ashkenazi, Responsa Ḥakham Tzvi 93

Text 16-Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5

Text 17-Waldenberg, Responsa Tzitz Eliezer

Text 18-Grazi and Wolowesky, Overcoming Infertility

6. Abortion

Case Study #1: Fetal Reduction of Twins

Case Study #2: Abortion of a Fetus with a Deficit

Case Study #3: When Contraception Fails

Text Study #1: Halakhic Status of the Fetus

Text 1a-Exod. 21:12.

Text 1b-Exod. 21:22-23

Text 2-Mishnah Ohalot 7:6

Text 3a-Exod. 22:1-2

Text 3b-Rashi on Exod. 22:1-2

Text 3c-Sanhedrin 73a

Text 4-Sanhedrin 72b

Text Study #2: Two Approaches to Abortion Ethics

Text 5a-Rashi on Sanhedrin 72b, s.v. "If its head came out"

Text 5b-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Murder and Preservation of Life 1:9

Text Study #3: Fetal Personhood

Text 6-Arakhin 7a

Text 7-Sanhedrin 84b

Text 8a-Central Conference of American Rabbis, Resolution on Abortion

Text 8b-Agudath Israel of America, National Public Policy Position Paper

Text 9-Feldman, "Abortion: The Jewish View"

Text 10-Bleich, Judaism and Healing

Text 11-Meacham (leBeit Yoreh), Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

Text 12-Waldenberg, Responsa Tzitz Eliezer

Text 13-Feinstein, Responsa Iggrot Moshe

Text 14-Jacob, "When Is Abortion Permitted?"

Text 15-"Israel: Reproduction and Abortion: Law and Policy"

Text 16-Alpert, "Sometimes the Law Is Cruel"

7. Medical Ethics at the End of Life

Case Study #1: Defining Death

Case Study #2: Extending Life at What Cost?

Case Study #3: Physician-Assisted Dying

Text Study #1: Basic Principles of Jewish Medical Ethics

Text 1a-Ps. 24:1

Text 1b-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Proper Conduct 3:3 and 4:1

Text 2a-Mishnah Yoma 8:6-7

Text 2b-Yoma 85b

Text 2c-Yoma 85a

Text 3a-Exod. 21:18-19

Text 3b-Bava Kamma 85a

Text 3c-Mishneh Torah, Laws of Murder and Preservation of Life 11:4-5

Text Study #2: When Death Is Inevitable

Text 4a-Semaḥot 1:1-1:4

Text 4b-Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 339:2

Text 5-Avodah Zarah 18a

Text 6-Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 339:1

Text 7a-HaLevi, Natural and Artificial Life

Text 7b-Waldenberg, Responsa Tzitz Eliezer

Text 8a-Reisner, "A Halakhic Ethic of Care for the Terminally Ill".

Text 8b-Sinclair, Tradition and the Biological Revolution.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8276-1881-6

OCLC:

1263024533