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Judaeo-Christian ethics (or Judeo-Christian values) is a supposed value system common to Jews and Christians. It was first described in print in 1941 by English writer George Orwell . The idea that Judaeo-Christian ethics underpin American politics, law and morals has been part of the " American civil religion " since the 1940s.
Geneivat da'at or g'neivat daat or genebath da'ath (Hebrew: גניבת דעת, lit. 'theft of the mind', from Hebrew גנבה 'stealing' and דעת 'knowledge') is a concept in Jewish law and ethics that refers to a kind of dishonest misrepresentation or deception.
Morinis' book Everyday Holiness (2007) and Stone's book A Responsible Life (2007) were among the popular books that sparked contemporary interest in the Musar movement. Musar has been described as "an emerging and growing phenomenon" within Reform Judaism , and leaders of Conservative Judaism have debated whether Musar should stand at the ...
Kav ha-Yashar (lit.The Just Measure; קב הישר), authored by Tzvi Hirsch Kaidanover (c. 1648 [citation needed] –1712), a rabbi at Frankfurt and son of Aaron Samuel Kaidanover, is an "ethical-kabbalistic collection of stories, moral guidance, and customs", [1] and one of the most popular [2] works of musar literature.
The intersections of morality and religion involve the relationship between religious views and morals.It is common for religions to have value frameworks regarding personal behavior meant to guide adherents in determining between right and wrong.
Instead, Judaism's principles of faith remain debated by the rabbis based on their understanding of the sacred writings, laws, and traditions, which collectively shape its theological and ethical framework. The most accepted version in extent is the opinion of Maimonides.
Ethics in the Bible refers to the system(s) or theory(ies) produced by the study, interpretation, and evaluation of biblical morals (including the moral code, standards, principles, behaviors, conscience, values, rules of conduct, or beliefs concerned with good and evil and right and wrong), that are found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.
[12] During the 1950s, that book and the 1951 essay Judaism and Modern Man set out influential positions on Judaism and on the American religious tradition in general. Herberg also wrote that anti-Catholicism is the antisemitism of secular Jewish intellectuals.