Compassion and Self-Concern in Halakhic Environmental Decision-Making

The prevailing stance in Jewish orthodoxy is that environmental issues are extra-legal and not under the purview of halakhah (Jewish law). While considered important, environmental protection falls only under “midat haḥasidut” (extraordinary piety). This ultimately translates into environmental prot...

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Main Author: Yoreh, Tanhum (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Worldviews
Year: 2022, Volume: 26, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 29-54
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible. Deuteronomium 20,19-20 / Halacha / Environmental protection / Waste / Legality / Morals
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
BH Judaism
FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NCB Personal ethics
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
XA Law
Further subjects:B waste not
B self-concerned environmentalism
B extraordinary piety
B environmental decision-making
B Compassion
B Deuteronomy 20:19
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