Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 7)

For Judaism, morality is something else. It is covenantal, the result of a partnership—a marriage—between humanity and God.

One of Judaism’s most distinctive and challenging ideas is its ethics of responsibility, the idea that God invites us to become, in the rabbinic phrase, his ‘partners in the work of creation’. The God who created the world in love calls on us to create in love. The God who gave us the gift of freedom asks us to use it to honour and enhance the free

The Torah sets forth a third way, in which people obey the law because they have voluntarily undertaken to do so. This

If God exists, then the moral law exists. If the moral law exists, then conscience exists; and if conscience exists, there are limits to power.