Caring for Others, the Torah, and Ourselves: Jewish Perspectives on the Ethics of Care (2/3) with Sarah Zager

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics"

In this 3-part series we’ll explore how the experience of caring for others in need—including young children, the sick, and the elderly— shapes our religious lives. Using sources ranging from the Talmud to contemporary philosophy, we’ll consider how experiences of care enrich our understanding of halakhah and religious obligation, and how these experiences can help us express our hopes for the future.

In this session we’ll compare two accounts of ethical and halakhic hiyuv or “obligation” from Emmanuel Levinas and Mara Benjamin. We’ll explore how the ethics of care can help us enrich our sense of what obligation means in both our own daily lives, as well as in Jewish texts.

This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 12/13/2020 as part of Drisha's Fall Zman.