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Tzadaka Mimeni: The Jewish Ethic of Personal Responsibility de Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

Tzadaka Mimeni: The Jewish Ethic of Personal Responsibility

Autor Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
en Limba Engleză Hardback – dec 2014
The notion of personal responsibility sounds so obvious that for generations it was self-understood. It was associated with maturity, reasoned decision making, acceptance of consequences for one s actions, admissions of guilt and wrongdoing when appropriate, thrift and decency, concern for others and for society at large. But the rise of the entitlement generation has transformed the way we live and look at the world. Too many feel that others i.e., the rest of society are responsible to raise them, feed them, clothe them, educate them, find them spouses, jobs and homes, give them health care, defend them, and satisfy all their physical and emotional needs. That mindset debilitates both the individual and the society; the ethic of personal responsibility needs to be revived for the welfare of both. Fortunately, personal responsibility is at the very heart of the Torah. Rooted in the fundamental doctrine of free choice, the Torah compels us to take responsibility for ourselves and others and shape our personal and national destinies accordingly. This unique book, in the format of essays on each Torah portion, extracts from the Torah itself applications of the Jewish ethic of personal responsibility in areas as diverse as ethics, dating, marriage, parenting, family life, employment, divine service, military service, acts of kindness, repentance, private property ownership, wealth, Torah study, mitzvot, modesty, justice, gratitude, sensitivity, Jewish national life, holiness and more, leaving us with a profound vision for modern man and his search for meaning and happiness.
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ISBN-13: 9789652296498
ISBN-10: 965229649X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Gefen Publishing House
Colecția Gefen Publishing House
Locul publicării:Jerusalem, Israel

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In this volume we encounter the teaching of personal responsibility in marriages, parenting, family life, employment, divine service, military service, acts of kindness, repentance, private property ownership, wealth, biblical commands, modesty, justice, gratitude, and much more. "The whole Torah is about personal responsibility."
Steven Pruzansky is a highly respected rabbi of a Teaneck, New Jersey, synagogue. The theme of his book is "personal responsibility." God created people with the ability to think, this is what makes them human, and people are required to think and take responsibility for their actions. The volume is in English, but its title Tzadka Mimeni is taken from Genesis 38:26 where Judah, the son of the patriarch Jacob, accepted personal responsibility for his daughter-in- law's pregnancy and stated tzadka mimeni, “she is right, it [the baby] is from me.” Rabbi Pruzansky finds Judah's “embrace of personal responsibility…exceedingly rare by modern standards. It is much more common for leaders (and laymen) to deflect responsibility, to shift blame to others, and to never admit mistakes (except in the passive sense, as in 'mistakes were made’).”
This is the first of a series of books in which the rabbi shows how this theme is dramatized in the twelve biblical portions of Genesis and the eleven in Exodus. He has as many as a dozen essays in each of the twenty-three portions. In this volume we encounter the teaching of personal responsibility in marriages, parenting, family life, employment, divine service, military service, acts of kindness, repentance, private property ownership, wealth, biblical commands, modesty, justice, gratitude, and much more. “The whole Torah is about personal responsibility.”
Noah, for example, had weaknesses, “but his greatest strength – and the reason why the Torah described him as unequivocally upright – was his courage in defying his generation, obeying the call of God, and confronting his peers over their wicked ways.” He exemplified personal responsibility, for personal responsibility “does not mean that a person is fixated only on his own needs and deeds – but [it] rather requires acknowledging our obligations to our fellow creatures.”
People, the rabbi writes, need values “the most important and definitive dimensions of human personality. Without values, we are shells of people, just bodies of tissues and fluids not very distinguishable from animals. To betray his high calling, [Joseph, while a slave in Egypt, while his master’s wife tried to seduce him did not] betray his sense of self, and that [sense of personal responsibility] enabled [Joseph] to leave that unnamed woman and not look back with any regret about his decision, despite the long incarceration that was his fate,”
Personal responsibility is, according to Rabbi Pruzansky, basic to humanity. “One who forfeits his decision making to others – or voluntarily transfers it – has wittingly or unwittingly chosen a life of servitude.” We must live “our lives rather than have others live their lives through us.” People’s refusal to think on their own, their refusal to think and take personal responsibility for their thoughts and acts enslaves them to the desires of others. In this sense, “slavery is not a relic of a bygone era but is still very much with us, in concept and application,”