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Jews, Money, Myth was an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum London in 2019. It was made in collaboration with the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London with the academic collaboration from David Feldman, Anthony Bale , and Marc Volovici.
Perhaps the most controversial form of Jewish philosophy that developed in the early 20th century was the religious naturalism of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, whose theology was a variant of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy. Kaplan’s naturalism combined nontheist metaphysics with religious terminology to construct a philosophy for those who had ...
Jewish business ethics is a form of applied Jewish ethics that examines ethical issues that arise in a business environment. It is noted [ 1 ] that in the Torah , there are over 100 Mitzvot concerning the kashrut (fitness) of one's money, many more, in fact, than concerning the kashrut of food.
Duties of the Heart became a popular book among the Jews worldwide, and parts of it were once recited for devotional purposes during the days before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Ibn Paquda's works inspired and shaped many later Jewish writers, including Berechiah ha-Nakdan in his encyclopedic philosophical work Sefer HaHibbur , "The Book ...
Pages in category "Jewish philosophers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 506 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hence, if one lent "food money," or monetary tokens of any kind, it was legitimate to charge interest. [10] Food money in the shape of olives, dates, seeds, or animals was lent out as early as c. 5000 BCE, if not earlier, and records indicate rates of 10–25 percent for silver and 20–35 percent for cereals.
As the translation by F. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes in The Philosophy of Love reads, "The intellect is purely spiritual, whereas the soul is partly spiritual and partly corporeal, and is ever-moving to and fro between body and mind." Philo [later] defines the essence of love: love is the desire of something and its object is pleasure in a
A Debate Concerning Determinism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy, published in Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 5 (1984): pp. 15-54; The Binding of Isaac: A Test-case of Divine Foreknowledge, in Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy, edited by Tamar Rudavsky (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 105-134.