RELS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Priestly Blessing, Makkot, Talmud

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 205
• Professor: Craig ginn

Document Summary

What is the essence of "a good life" in judaism?1. First response by rabbi gidon rothstein (orthodox judaism) What an important question, and one that we as humans and as jews return to each generation. Talmud, makkot 23b-24a, where the talmud envisions various prophets as trying to boil down the. My favorite in that list, the one that i put on my father obm"s tombstone, is micah 6:8"s call for doing justice, charity, and walking humbly with. The talmud itself goes further, ending with amos" note that the righteous shall live by his faith. That faith, though, is an active one, one in which the believer seeks to act in the ways god wants, not just to believe. I have actually spent awhile discussing these kinds of issues, most recently in a series of posts at blog. webyeshiva. org, called the mission of orthodoxy project.