A Personal Struggle with Jewish Ethics

Author: Levy, Joshua B.

Source: European Judaism, Volume 40, Number 2, Winter 2007 , pp. 161-170(10)

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Abstract:

I have always seen making ethical people, or at least making people ethical, as an essential part of the task of Jewish education and synagogue life. I have often quoted Leo Baeck who, when he sought to define the essence of Judaism, wrote about ethics. But it is not quite so simple. Is being a good person enough to make you a good Jew, as this congregant ultimately believed? If so, are our institutions and, indeed, Judaism itself, necessary for this to happen?

DOI: 10.3167/ej.2007.400216

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