Beit Midrash: Power, Morality, and Proportionality (VRTS)

Donniel Hartman discusses Jewish power and how we can lead dialogues about conflict from the perspective of Jewish values.

Donniel Hartman

July 12, 2021

July 12, 2021

Donniel Hartman

Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute and holds the Kaufman Family Chair in Jewish Philosophy. He is author of the Boundaries of Judaism, and Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself. His latest book, Who are the Jews and Who Can We Become, was a 2023 Jewish Book Council Award Finalist. Donniel is also the host of the award-winning podcast For Heaven’s Sake, together with his colleague Yossi Klein

Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar, Jewish Ethics and the Public Sphere, Video

Beit Midrash: Power, Morality, and Proportionality

Donniel Hartman engages in a moral discourse about Jewish power and the ethical dilemmas of sovereignty, from classical Jewish sources to the IDF Code of Ethics. When does the use of power become immoral? When does the critique of power become immoral? How can we understand and lead dialogue about the recent conflict in Israel from the perspective of Jewish values?

NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar, Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

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Beit Midrash: Power, Morality, and Proportionality (VRTS)

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