J. David Bleich ― Where Halakhah and Philosophy Meet

Bleich is first and foremost a halakhist, a master of Jewish law, but also a Jewish philosopher. Here, five of his essays cover the Halakhic process, life as an intrinsic value, moral debate and semantic sleight of hand, Judaism and natural law, and reflections. The notion of a Jewish philosophy, he says, means that Judaism has a faith-commitment to a particular philosophy or to a particular philosophical view directly based upon explicit dogmatic sources or upon authoritative tradition, or it might also mean that the philosophical position in question can be extrapolated from analyses of provisions of Halakhah, Jewish law. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.