Presented By: Judaic Studies
Justice and Generosity in the Early Jewish Tradition
Chaya Halberstam, King's University College at the University of Western Ontario
West Bloomfield Lecture Series: Jews and Judaism in Antiquity
This talk will be an interactive study session focused on the question: is the goal of justice compatible with virtue of generosity? Or is one necessarily strict while the other is compassionate? We will study several excerpts from biblical law, one description of ideal kingship in the Prophets, and two texts from early rabbinic literature to explore this question.
Photo Credit: By Wmpearl (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
This talk will be an interactive study session focused on the question: is the goal of justice compatible with virtue of generosity? Or is one necessarily strict while the other is compassionate? We will study several excerpts from biblical law, one description of ideal kingship in the Prophets, and two texts from early rabbinic literature to explore this question.
Photo Credit: By Wmpearl (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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