Commentaryמפרשים

BabylonianTalmud, Sotah 14a

Yalkut Shimoni, Genesis 1:13

Zohar III, 113b

Midrash Tannaim-Deuteronomy 16:20 - B

Kesef Mishneh, Laws of Murder 1:14

Sifre, Numbers 133

Pesikta Rabati, section 28 (also found in Midrash Shocher Tov 137)

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 2:6

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Genesis 37:21

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 10b

Sefer HaChinuch, Mitzvah 66

Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Pain of Others" (New York: Picador, 2003)

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, commentary to Exodus 35:3 p. 670-671

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 76a

Marc Gopin, "Judaism, The Limits of War, and Conflict Resolution" (1991)

Sefer HaChinuch, Mitzvah 16

Ohr HaChayim, commentary on Numbers 11:10

Netivot Shalom, Lech Lecha

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

The Nineteen Letters, Letter Three, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 110b

Babylonian Talmud-Tractate Megila 6a

Blu Greenberg, How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., First Fireside, 1985), p. 117-118.

Rabbi Samphson Rafael Hirsch, commentary to Leviticus 19:14, in The Pentateuch: vol. 1: Genesis

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006), pp. 34-35.

Sefer HaManhig, Gates of Righteousness and Gemilut Chasadim, 715:2

Sefer HaChinuch, Mitzvah 63

Tosefta Sotah 3:11-12

Kli Yakar on Genesis 27:3

Rav Ovadia Bartenura, Mishnah Bava Kama 7:7

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Brachot 37b

Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, as quoted in Introduction to Judaism: A Sourcebook (New York: UAHC Press, 1998),p. 137

Seder Eliyahu Rabbah, 16

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 51b

Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman.” Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.79

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence (New York: Macmillan, 1967), p.72.

Elie Wiesel, "From Cambodia to Sudan: Breaking Down Wall of Apathy," (New York: 11 March 2005), http://ajws.org/who_we_are/news/archives/viewpoints/from_cambodia_to_sudan.html.

Avot de-Rabbi Nathan [A] 8

Nechama Leibowitz, Studies in BaMidbar, p. 294. Commentary to Parshat Balak

Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use,” Circles on the Water, (New York: Knopf, 1982.)

Likutey Aharon (Rabbi Yeshua Lalum ) #17

Rambam, Laws of Repentance 4:4 - a

Mishna, Ta’anit 1:7 (Commentary on I Samuel 12:17-18)

R. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, HaEmek HaDavar on Leviticus 19:14

Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 19b

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kilayim 10:29

Midrash Psalms 118:17

Leviticus Rabbah 34:8

Abe Rosenthal, Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case (California, Univ of California Press 1964), pp. xxvii-xxix

Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, from "The Price of Brotherhood", The Empire Club of Canada Speeches 1955-1956 (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956) pp. 219-235

BabylonianTalmud, Kiddushin 40b

Sifre on Parashat Re'eh

Ramban, Deuternonomy 32:1

Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement” from Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996).

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 13b

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 156a

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 10:18-19

Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, Commentary on Creation of Gender

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, from A. Besdin, "Man of Faith in the Modern World: Reflections of the Rav" (New York: Ktav Pub Inc, 1989)

Midrash Tanchuma 19:3

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006) pp. 157-159.

Radak, I Shmuel 7:6

Alon Goshen-Gotteschien, "Creation," Contemporary Religious Thought, eds. Arthur Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987).

Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 147a

Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Regarding Immigration of Converts

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 54b

Text Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman.” Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.79b

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot De’ot 3:5-8

Midrash Song of Songs Rabba 6:12

Tosafot, Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 76a, s.v. mesolelot

Blu Greenberg, Statement [from the first National Jewish Women’s Conference], Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive), #2.

Song of Songs Rabba, 5:11

Midrash Genesis Rabba (Vilna edition), 8:12

Rabbi Moshe Isserles, Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha'Ezer 5:14

Sefer HaYirah, Rabbeinu Yonah

Midrash Tehillim 17: 15

MJ Rosenberg, On Human Rights Standards (From "Sharansky's Double Standard," The American Conservative, Michael Desch, 2009)

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34

Pirkei D’Rabbi Eliezer, Horev 24

Genesis Rabbah 5:4

Rashi to Exodus 2:10-14

Ibn Ezra, Exodus 22:23

David Hartman, A Living Covenant (New York: Free Press, 1985).

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 62b

Genesis Rabbah, 4:6

Elie Wiesel, "The Perils of Indifference," Seventh White House Millennium Evening, Washington, DC, 12 Apr. 1999.

Nechama Leibowitz, New Studies in Exodus, "The Midwives"

Magen Avot of Rabbi Shimon ben Tzemach Duran

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "The Dignity of Difference", (London: Continuum, 2002), p.30

The Origins of Social Justice, from "Justice and Righteousness in Israel and the Nations: Equality and Freedom in Ancient Israel in Light of Social Justice in the Ancient Near East," (Hebrew), by Moshe Weinfeld

Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 30b

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “Global Covenant: A Jewish Perspective on Globalization,” Making Globalization Good, edited by John H. Dunning. p.224

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 67b

Babylonian Talmud, Nedarim 50b

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Hire 13:7

Midrash Tehillim, Psalm 41

Mishnah, Makkot 1:10

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 39b and Rashi

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 15-16

Rashi, Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 73a, s.v. delav orheih

Kohelet Raba 5:14

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963

Mishnah, Pirkei Avot 5:17

Rambam, Mishneh Torah: Gifts to the Poor 10:4

Text Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman.” Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.80-81

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006), pp. 60-62.

Rashi, Deuteronomy 26:2

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 45a

Albert Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 94.

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 49a

Midrash Tanhuma, Parshat VaYakhel 1

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 54b-55a

Leviticus Rabbah, 3:1

Genesis Rabbah 10:7

Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia, 85a

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 67b

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

Arthur Green, These are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life (Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999), p.182.

Imrei Noam,found in Nechama Leibowitz, New Studies in Exodus (Eliner Library, 1995).

Genesis Rabbah 8:1

Babylonian Talmud Berachot 35a

Midrash on Pslams 41:2

Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 7b

Dr. Daniel Ziskin, Jews of the Earth, Golden, CO, June 20, 2000 (Testimony of COEJL Representatives at at U.S. Forest Service Hearings).

Torat Moshe, Leviticus 19:9-10

Rashi to Deuteronomy 22:1

Yitzhak Rabin, at the signing of the Israel-Palestinian Declaration of Principles (September 13, 1993)

Ramban, Genesis 2:3

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching Nine

Elie Wiesel - What being Jewish means to me

Tosefta Bava Metzia 6:17

Exodus Rabbah, Chapter 2

Itturei Torah, Deuteronomy 25:17

Otzar HaMidrashim Alpha Beta of Ben Sira

Midrash Rabbah - Leviticus 22:1

Genesis Rabbah 8:12

Danny Siegel, And God Braided Eve's Hair. (United Synagogue of America: 1980), p. 114.

Genesis Rabbah 11:6

Isaiah Berlin, "Politics and Philosophy," The Pursuit of Ideals (New York:The New York Review of Books, 1988).

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 75a

Sifrei, Deuteronomy ch. 203

Rashi, Deuteronomy 20:19

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 17b

Samson Raphael Hirsch, Deuteronomy 15:11

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

Talmud Ketubot 67b3

Noam Elimelech - Parshat Ki Tisa

Ramban on Numbers 11:4

Eliyahu Rabbah, 26

The Alshich (Rabbi Moshe Alshich) on Leviticus 19:9-10

The Jewish Concept of Labor - Simon Federbush

BabylonianTalmud, Chagigah 5a

Midrash Sekehl Tov, Genesis 19

Babylonian Talmud, Beitza 40a

Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:3

Genesis Rabbah 96:5

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 13a

Yad Rama to Tractate Bava Batra 26a

Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective (Harper: San Francisco, 1986), p.1.

Pri Tzadik (Hassidic Commentary of Rabbi Zadok HaKohen Rabinowitz) 112

Rosh, Bava Metzia 3:10

Muriel Rukeyser, from "To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century," Beast in View (New York: Doubleday, Doran and co., 1944).

From Totafot to Tefillin/מטטפת לתפילין

MOSHE'S MORAL BRAVERY - "Darkhei Moshe", Parashat Shemot, Rabbi Moshe Chalphon HaCohen - part 1

Nechama Leibowitz, "And Our Oppression." Studies on the Haggadah from the Teachings of Nechama Leibowitz (New York: Urim Publications, 2002).

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Judaism and Immigrant Rights (Jewish Funds for Justice).

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 119b (Rav Yehuda)

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006), pp. 8-9.

Kohelet Rabbah 9:7

Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 9b

Sifra 9:8

Arthur Green, These are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life (Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999), p. 181.

Rabbi Elliot Dorff, "Why We Must Support Universal Health Care," (The Jewish Journal, 8/26/2009)

Rabbi Samphson Raphael Hirsch, commentary to Proverbs 3:17

Genesis Rabba 41:1

Ramban, Genesis 19:5

Mishnah, Pirkei Avot 3:14

Midrash Ruth Rabba 5:9

Rabbi Ezra Batzri, Monetary Laws, section 2, page 376, note 9

Aaron Dorfman - Beyond Good Intentions: A Values Proposition for Jewish Service Learning

Ramban, Leviticus 19:2

Babylonian Talmud, Chagiga 2a, 3b

Responsa Sh'eilat Yaavetz 2:51, Rabbi Jacob Emden

BabylonianTalmud, Brachot 58a

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006) pp. 258-260.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, "Tikkun Olam"

BabylonianTalmud, Yoma 85a-b

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 12:6

Rashi, Deuteronomy 33:13

Rashi, Genesis 6:9

Genesis Rabbah 5:10

Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne - Service Learning Required

Midrash Tanhuma, Shoftim 8:5

Joan Snyder, Statement on "Our Foremothers," http://jwa.org/feminism/_html/JWA065.htm.

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 109b

Commentary on the Torah

Mishnah Berura, volume Orech Chaim, section 297, subsection 4

Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, from "The Price of Brotherhood", The Empire Club of Canada Speeches 1955-1956 (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956) pp. 219-235

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

Blu Greenberg, Statement [from the first National Jewish Women’s Conference], Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive).

Midrash Tanhuma, Nitzavim 2

Responsa Mi'lamed Li'hoil 2:83

Tosefta Sanhedrin 13:8

Avot d’Rabbi Natan 7:1

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b - A

“The Sabbath” by Abraham Joshua Heschel, page 18

Genesis Rabbah 13:3

Midrash Tanhuma Va'yera, 12

Rabbi Samphson Rafael Hirsch, commentary to Leviticus 19:18, in The Pentateuch: vol. 1: Genesis

Midrash Proverbs, Chapter 12

Deuteronomy Rabbah 5:3

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor 7:13

Rashi, Exodus 3:1

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor 7:3

Rabbeinu Bachya, Deuteronomy 20:19

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 70a

Rabbi DovBer Pinson on Upsherin

Deuteronomy Rabbah 5:1

Rashi, Tractate Bava Kama 82b

Midrash Tannaim - Deuteronomy 16:19

Albert Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 94.

Ramban, Deuteronomy 5:13

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

Rashi, Genesis 1:1

Midrash Tanhuma, Vayera 8

Exodus Rabbah 31:12

Rashi, Deuteronomy 32:1

Ibn Ezra, Leviticus 18:22

Babylonian Talmud, Tamid 29b

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (The Lubavitcher Rebbe), 1981

Rambam on Mishna Peah 1:1

Mekhilta Mishpatim 19

Sefer HaHinuch. Mitzvah 529

Ecclesiastes Rabbah 3:2

Ramban on Genesis 19:5

Pirkei deRabbi Elieizer (Warsaw edition) chapter 34

Rabbi David Jay Kaufman, "We Cannot Stand Idly By," April 28, 2006 from "Justice, Righteousness, and Kindness"

Alan Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 6.

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 32b

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 22:2

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 63b

Judith Plaskow, "Standing Again at Sinai: Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective" (Tikkun Magazine, 1986), p.33, " Feminist Ritual"

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 5:5

Rav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch, Exodus 22:20

Greenberg, Yitz. "Personal Service – A Central Jewish Norm for Our Time." CONTACT. 4.1 (2001): 3-4. Print.

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 105b

R. Haskel Lookstein and Social Activism (From Rav Chesed: The Life and Times of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, page 55-56)

Glatt Kosher — Glatt Yoshor by Rav Yosef Breuer, published 1949

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 101b

Leviticus Rabbah 25:3

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Fundamentals of the Torah, 2:2

Panim Yafot Exodus 22:24

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching Ten

Genesis Rabbah 26:5

Chizkuni, Genesis 7:21

Bi’ur Halacha (Rabbi Yisrael Meir haKohen) commenting on the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim 529:1

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, There Shall Be No Needy, pp. 141-142

Ha’emek Davar, Deuteronomy 15:7

"JTA Op-Ed: Judaism is always ‘tikkun olam’—and more" by Rabbi Eric Yoffie 1

Rashi to Genesis 2:24

Yalkut Shimoni, Psalms 874

Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anit 8b

Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz, "Jewish Business Ethics: An Introductory Perspective" (www.jlaw.com)

Ibn Ezra, Deuteronomy 32:1

TEN TEACHINGS ON JUDAISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT BY RABBI LAWRENCE TROSTER - Teaching Two

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 56a

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 68a

Exodus Rabbah 1:15

Jacob Milgrom, “Reflections on the Biblical GER,” Leviticus 17-22 (Anchor Bible, 2000).

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 62a

Kitzur Piskei HaRosh, Bava Metzia 5:23

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), p. 378.

Rabbi Ovadiah S'Forno, Commentary on Exodus 2:11-17

Tosefta, Gittin 3:13

From Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield and Evonne Marzouk, July 15 2009 Op-Ed from the Washington Jewish Week

Ha’emek Davar, Leviticus 26:13

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 17b

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

The Torah of Wisconsin by Elissa Barrett and Aryeh Cohen, from jewishjournal.com

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 7a

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Tikkun 14.4, “The Mitzvah of Tzedakah,” p. 58

Avot d'Rabbi Natan 1:11

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century, p. 83b

Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, “Torah Concept of Empathic Justice Can Bring Peace,” The Jewish Week, (New York, 3 April 1977), p.19

Nechama Leibowitz, "New Studies in Shemot," Parshat Shemot, (Israel: Haomanim Press, 1993), p. 41

"The Four Children," The Haggadah

Gur Arieh (Maharal), Genesis 34:13

Midrash Tehillim 17:8

Rashi, Genesis 41:55

Rashi, Exodus 23:16

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 53b

Emanuel Levinas, "The Temptation of Temptation," Nine Talmudic Readings, trans. Annette Aronowicz (Indianapolis: Indiana Univ Press, 1994), p. 48-49.

"Why We Went," a statement from prison signed by rabbis and Jewish lay leaders, St. Augustine, Florida,1964.

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 11b

Merle Feld, “We All Stood Together,” A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey, p. 205.

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1950

Tomer Devorah (Rav Moshe Cordovero) Ch. 3

Ruth Messinger: "What is Religion for?"- November 19, 2001

Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 10a

Emmanuel Levinas, “Philosophy, Justice, and Love,” in Entre Nous (English ed. New York : Columbia Univ Press, 1998.)

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 5.

Or Ha'Chayim, Rabbi Chayim ben Attar, Genesis 9:1

Beyond Beef, Jeremy Rifkin

Metzudat David, Judges 4:4

Genesis Rabbah 24:7

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 73a

Pesachim 11a

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 20

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006), pp. 100-101.

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34:2

Susannah Heschel, from the Jewish Women's Archive (http://jwa.org/feminism/)

Rambam, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 24:10

Leviticus Rabbah 6.2

Rashi, Numbers 20:2

Rashi, Deuteronomy 12:20

Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 23c

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 54a

Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin

Rabbi Sampson Raphael Hirsh commentary to Genesis 3:19

Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 251:3

Ellen Bernstein, "Rereading Genesis: Human Stewardship of the Earth," in Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice. eds. Rabbi Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Kaiser, and Margie Klein (Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008) p. 58.

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Kama 60:1

Rashi, Leviticus 25:35 (cf. Torat Kohanim, Sifre Behar, Chapter 5)

Midrash Tannaim, Deuteronomy 15:8

Chizkuni, Genesis 24:63

Exodus Rabbah 29:9

Avot de-Rabbi Nathan [B] 30

MOSHE'S MORAL BRAVERY - "DARKHEI MOSHE", PARASHAT SHEMOT, RABBI MOSHE CHALPHON HACOHEN - PART 2

Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anis 2a

Mishnah, Baba Kama 10:1

Rashi Moed Qattan 24b

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

Laura Geller, "Jewish Feminism: Go To Yourself!" The Shalom Center, 17 June 2005.

Ecclesiastes Rabbah 12:14

Perush Rabbenu Yonah on Avot 4:7

Rashi, Leviticus 26:19

Ramban, Exodus 15:25

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 112a

Rashi, Deuteronomy 13:5

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 65b

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 4-5

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108a

The D'var Torah by Anna Hanau

Nigel Savage on tithing today

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 112b

Midrash Deuteronomy Raba, 6:7

Alan Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 3.

Genesis Rabbah ch. 5, sub. 10

Rashi: Genesis 9:3 (Based on Sanhedrin 59b)

Babylonian Talmud, Chagigah 2b

Debbie Friedman cited in A Journey of Spirit. Prod. Ann Coppel (Jewish Women's Archive), http://jwa.org/feminism/.

Eliyahu Rabbah, Judges 4:4, parshah 10

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching Five

"JTA Op-Ed: Judaism is always ‘tikkun olam’—and more" by Rabbi Eric Yoffie 2

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 15

Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 43b

Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 109a

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 61b

Midrash Rabbah - Leviticus 22:2

Rashi to Genesis 1:26

Rashi, Deuteronomy 6:18

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006), pp. 116-117.

Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 336:3

Exodus Rabbah 27:9

Tosfot, Kiddushin 59a

Babylonian Talmud: Eruvin 95b

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 65a-b

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 68b

Mishna Sukkah 2:9

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006) pp. 186-187.

"Conversation with Eve Ensler," Interview by Marianne Schnall, Feminist.com, 3 Oct. 2006.

Rabbi Leah Sudran, Congregation B'nai Israel / Bay COEJL. Sacramento, CA, June 28, 2000

Judge Louis D. Brandeis, 1929

Golda Meir, Women's Liberation

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34:.1

Rashi, Leviticus 25:15

Rashi, Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 8b

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching Seven

Tosefta Yevamot 8:4

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 83a

Genesis Rabbah 93:10

Tosafot Berachot 29b, s.v. mevarech

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin, 65b

Rabbi Milton Steinberg in Telushkin, Joseph. The Book of Jewish Values. Bell Tower, New York: 2000. p. 25

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judasim and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights, 2006), pp. 17-19

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 140b

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on Pollution, from the Jewish Climate Initiative's Pollution Law

Resolution of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), "Protecting Ancient Forest Ecosystems," March 2000.

Rashi, Genesis 2:5

Rashi, Genesis 7:12

Rashi, Genesis 41:50

Rashi, Exodus 15:25

Ibn Ezra, Numbers 24:6

TEN TEACHINGS ON JUDAISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT BY RABBI LAWRENCE TROSTER - Teaching Three

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching Four

Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 18b

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 8a

Midrash Tehilim 104

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 53b

Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 57a

Leviticus Rabbah 32:8

Mishneh Torah, The Laws of Transgressors 3:3

Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, "Unfinished Rabbi" (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998), p. 60

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Torah Studies, p. 168, Letter, 11th Nissan 5725

Unidentified Medieval commentary to Babylonian Talmud, Tamid 29b

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 2a (comment on "false prophet")

Exodus Rabbah, Mishpatim, 31:13

Leviticus Rabbah 34:1.2

Rashi, Leviticus 17:3

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 61b

Jerusalem Talmud, Kidushin 66b

Exodus Rabbah 1:14

Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zara, 54a

Rabbi Joseph Albo, Book of Principles, Book 3, chapter 15

Ramban, commentary on Exodus 35:21

Ramban, Genesis 28:12

MOSHE'S MORAL BRAVERY - "DARKHEI MOSHE", PARASHAT SHEMOT, RABBI MOSHE CHALPHON HACOHEN - PART 4

Saul Berman, "Labor on the Bima," a Publication of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 24:17-18

Rashi, Leviticus 25:43

Yael Gordon, 1914, as cited in The Struggle for Equality: Urban Women Workers in Prestate Israeli Society, p.6

Sforno on Genesis 12:2

Rashi, Genesis 49:15

Rashi, Leviticus 25:1

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching Six

Rabbi David Saperstein on Avot 1:17

MOSHE'S MORAL BRAVERY - "DARKHEI MOSHE", PARASHAT SHEMOT, RABBI MOSHE CHALPHON HACOHEN - PART 5

Avot de Rabbi Natan 31

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 39.

Rashi, Deuteronomy 16:13

Ramban on Deuteronomy 24:15

Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World (Jewish Lights. 2006, p. 251)

Rashi, Exodus 23:9

Kizzur Shulchan Arukh 34:1

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 56b

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 139b

Rashi, Genesis 1:11

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 12-13

Tosefta Yevamot 8:4

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 36a

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (New York: Pocket Books, 1958)

Rabeinu Bachya, commentary to Exodus 35:2

Rabbi Israel, Maggid of Ksnitz

Babylonian Talmud, Chagigah 2b

Jerusalem Post Interview with R. Haskel Lookstein and R. Yitz Greenberg, May 3 2008

Ramban, Exodus 3:2-4

Rashi, commentary on Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 74b

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 18

Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 71a

Studies on the Haggadah: Teachings from Nechama Leibowitz, edited by Yitshak Reiner and Shmuel Peerless (Nechama Leibowitz was a famous Israeli Bible teacher, 1905-1997)- translation

Likutei Halachot - Purim 6:9

Mishna, Bava Kamma: 10:9

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34:4

Ramban, Deuternonomy 22:6

Rambam, Mishnah, Sukkah 3:1

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching One

Ten Teachings on Judaism and the Environment by Rabbi Lawrence Troster - Teaching Eight

Rashi, Genesis 6:2

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 12

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 14

Perushei Rav Yehuda HeHasid

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 103a

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b

Rabeinu Gershom to Tractate Tamid p. 29b

Jerusalem Talmud, Peah 8:8

Tosefta Terumot (Lieberman) 7:20

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 4:19

Rashi, Genesis 13:6

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 35a

Sifra, Bahar ch. 3

Rashi, Deuteronomy 24:15

Ibn Ezra, Psalms 115:16

Exodus Rabbah 31:12

R. Hayyim of Brisk

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 13

“Jewish Ethics of Employee Treatment and Communal Responsibility” by Dani Passow, p. 27

Sforno, Numbers 35:4

Teaching of the Ba'al Shem Tov, quoted in The Judaic Tradition p.44 (edited for gender neutrality)

Paula Hyman, Gender and the Immigrant Jewish Experience in the United States in Jewish Women in Historical Perspective by Judith Baskin, p. 313

MOSHE'S MORAL BRAVERY - "DARKHEI MOSHE", PARASHAT SHEMOT, RABBI MOSHE CHALPHON HACOHEN - PART 3

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 9.

The Hillel Tu B'Shvat Seder, The Importance of Trees

R. Solomon b. Adret, Responsa, pt. 3 #380

Rambam, Commentary on the Mishna, Tractate Avot Chapter 3:12

Rashi, Genesis 26:5