Caring for Others, the Torah, and Ourselves: Jewish Perspectives on the Ethics of Care (3/3) 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.

Care ethics often highlights the experiences of parents (especially mothers) caring for newborn babies and young children. In this session, we’ll use a series of aggadot to consider other places where care might appear, including infertility, pregnancy loss, and mourning. We’ll use these sources to explore how analyzing these experiences can expand our sense of what care and religious obligation look like.

This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 12/20/2020 as part of Drisha's Fall Zman.