Commentaryמפרשים

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 54b

Yalkut Shimoni, Genesis 1:13

Avot de-Rabbi Nathan [A] 8

Netivot Shalom, Lech Lecha

Zohar III, 113b

From Totafot to Tefillin/מטטפת לתפילין

Kli Yakar on Genesis 27:3

Sifre, Numbers 133

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Genesis 37:21

Genesis Rabbah 8:1

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 63b

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

Sefer HaChinuch, Mitzvah 66

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

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 54b-55a

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

Seder Eliyahu Rabbah, 16

Midrash Tanhuma, Parshat VaYakhel 1

BabylonianTalmud, Sotah 14a

Genesis Rabbah 26:5

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

Midrash Tannaim-Deuteronomy 16:20 - B

Babylonian Talmud-Tractate Megila 6a

Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 19b

Likutey Aharon (Rabbi Yeshua Lalum ) #17

Kesef Mishneh, Laws of Murder 1:14

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

Sefer HaChinuch, Mitzvah 16

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 76a

Sefer HaChinuch, Mitzvah 63

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 10b

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 13b

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

Ohr HaChayim, commentary on Numbers 11:10

Magen Avot of Rabbi Shimon ben Tzemach Duran

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

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Brachot 37b

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 2:6

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

Panim Yafot Exodus 22:24

Kohelet Rabbah 9:7

Tosefta Sotah 3:11-12

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

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 110b

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

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kilayim 10:29

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

Midrash Psalms 118:17

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

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

“The Sabbath” by Abraham Joshua Heschel, page 18

Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, Commentary on Creation of Gender

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

Leviticus Rabbah 34:8

Tosefta Bava Metzia 6:17

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 10:18-19

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

Pirkei D’Rabbi Eliezer, Horev 24

Rav Ovadia Bartenura, Mishnah Bava Kama 7:7

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 51b

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, Nedarim 50b

Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 30b

Elie Wiesel - What being Jewish means to me

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34

Rashi to Exodus 2:10-14

Song of Songs Rabba, 5:11

Midrash Tanchuma 19:3

BabylonianTalmud, Kiddushin 40b

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

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 156a

The Nineteen Letters, Letter Three, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

Rambam, Laws of Repentance 4:4 - a

Kohelet Raba 5:14

Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 147a

Sefer HaYirah, Rabbeinu Yonah

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

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.

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 45a

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

Ramban, Deuternonomy 32:1

Itturei Torah, Deuteronomy 25:17

Sifre on Parashat Re'eh

Midrash Genesis Rabba (Vilna edition), 8:12

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

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

Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 23c

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Hire 13:7

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

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, "Tikkun Olam"

Genesis Rabba 41:1

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

Mishnah, Makkot 1:10

Genesis Rabbah, 4:6

Eliyahu Rabbah, 26

Midrash Tehillim, Psalm 41

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

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 17b

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 109b

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

Talmud Ketubot 67b3

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 39b and Rashi

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

Ramban (1194-1270) The Advantages of Intellectual Diversity

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

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 62b

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 Rabbah - Leviticus 22:1

Chizkuni, Genesis 7:21

Midrash Tehillim 17: 15

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

Babylonian Talmud Berachot 35a

Radak, I Shmuel 7:6

Genesis Rabbah 96:5

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

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

BabylonianTalmud, Brachot 58a

The Jewish Concept of Labor - Simon Federbush

Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:3

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (The Lubavitcher Rebbe), 1981

Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia, 85a

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 75a

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

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 67b

Midrash Song of Songs Rabba 6:12

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

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

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

Rashi, Deuteronomy 26:2

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

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

Midrash Tanhuma, Vayera 8

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 67b

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 49a

Torat Moshe, Leviticus 19:9-10

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

Ramban, Leviticus 19:2

Babylonian Talmud, Tamid 29b

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

Exodus Rabbah, Chapter 2

Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 7b

Kitzur Piskei HaRosh, Bava Metzia 5:23

Genesis Rabbah 11:6

Genesis Rabbah 5:4

Otzar HaMidrashim Alpha Beta of Ben Sira

Midrash Proverbs, Chapter 12

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

Midrash Sekehl Tov, Genesis 19

Mishnah, Pirkei Avot 5:17

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

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

Tosefta Sanhedrin 13:8

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

Ibn Ezra, Exodus 22:23

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

Genesis Rabbah 24:7

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 70a

Leviticus Rabbah, 3:1

Sifra 9:8

Mishnah, Pirkei Avot 3:14

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

Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 9b

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

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 68a

Rabbi Samphson Raphael Hirsch, commentary to Proverbs 3:17

Sefer HaHinuch. Mitzvah 529

Midrash Tanhuma, Nitzavim 2

BabylonianTalmud, Chagigah 5a

Noam Elimelech - Parshat Ki Tisa

Midrash Ruth Rabba 5:9

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

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 119b (Rav Yehuda)

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

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

Midrash on Pslams 41:2

Deuteronomy Rabbah 5:3

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 13a

Ramban on Numbers 11:4

Ramban, Genesis 2:3

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b - A

Rashi to Deuteronomy 22:1

Midrash Tannaim - Deuteronomy 16:19

Midrash Tanhuma Va'yera, 12

Genesis Rabbah 10:7

Rambam on Mishna Peah 1:1

Ramban, Exodus 15:25

Ramban on Genesis 19:5

Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 71a

Rashi, commentary on Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 74b

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

Deuteronomy Rabbah 5:1

Babylonian Talmud, Beitza 40a

Genesis Rabbah 5:10

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

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

Rashi, Genesis 1:1

Genesis Rabbah 8:12

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

Ramban, Genesis 19:5

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin, 65b

Ramban, Genesis 28:12

BabylonianTalmud, Yoma 85a-b

Exodus Rabbah 31:12

Yad Rama to Tractate Bava Batra 26a

Responsa Mi'lamed Li'hoil 2:83

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 5:5

Avot d’Rabbi Natan 7:1

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

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

"The Four Children," The Haggadah

Rashi, Deuteronomy 20:19

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

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

Tomer Devorah (Rav Moshe Cordovero) Ch. 3

Exodus Rabbah 27:9

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 32b

Avot de Rabbi Natan 31

Rabbi DovBer Pinson on Upsherin

Mekhilta Mishpatim 19

Rashi, Tractate Bava Kama 82b

Rosh, Bava Metzia 3:10

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

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 54a

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

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

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 12:6

Pesachim 11a

Ibn Ezra, Leviticus 18:22

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 56a

Mishna Sukkah 2:9

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

Rabbeinu Bachya, Deuteronomy 20:19

Leviticus Rabbah 25:3

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

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

Midrash Tannaim, Deuteronomy 15:8

Samson Raphael Hirsch, Deuteronomy 15:11

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

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

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

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

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

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

Ibn Ezra, Deuteronomy 32:1

Tosefta, Gittin 3:13

Exodus Rabbah 1:15

Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne - Service Learning Required

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 7a

Mishna, Bava Kamma: 10:9

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

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

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

Rav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch, Exodus 22:20

Babylonian Talmud, Chagiga 2a, 3b

Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 10a

Commentary on the Torah

Midrash Tanhuma, Shoftim 8:5

Ha’emek Davar, Leviticus 26:13

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 105b

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 65b

Rashi, Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 8b

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 61b

Rashi, Deuteronomy 33:13

Exodus Rabbah 29:9

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

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

Yalkut Shimoni, Psalms 874

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 56b

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 65a-b

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

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

Midrash Tehillim 17:8

Rambam, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 24:10

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

Eliyahu Rabbah, Judges 4:4, parshah 10

Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 57a

Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anit 8b

Chizkuni, Genesis 24:63

Sifrei, Deuteronomy ch. 203

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

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 62a

Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin

Ecclesiastes Rabbah 3:2

Ramban, Deuteronomy 5:13

Exodus Rabbah 31:12

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

Likutei Halachot - Purim 6:9

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

Rashi, Exodus 23:16

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108a

Rabbi David Saperstein on Avot 1:17

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 68b

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anis 2a

Rashi on Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 17b

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

Genesis Rabbah 93:10

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34:4

Ramban, Deuternonomy 22:6

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Kama 60:1

Tosfot, Kiddushin 59a

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

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

Rashi, Leviticus 25:1

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

Rashi, Deuteronomy 12:20

Rashi, Genesis 26:5

Rashi, Exodus 15:25

Rashi, Leviticus 25:15

Tosefta Yevamot 8:4

Jerusalem Talmud, Kidushin 66b

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

Avot de-Rabbi Nathan [B] 30

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

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

Sifra, Bahar ch. 3

Avot d'Rabbi Natan 1:11

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

Tosefta Terumot (Lieberman) 7:20

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

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.

Rashi, Leviticus 25:43

Rashi, Genesis 6:9

Pirkei deRabbi Elieizer (Warsaw edition) chapter 34

Rashi, Genesis 2:5

Rashi, Leviticus 26:19

Rabbi Sampson Raphael Hirsh commentary to Genesis 3:19

Ramban, Exodus 3:2-4

Rashi, Genesis 7:12

Rashi, Deuteronomy 32:1

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

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

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

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

Unidentified Medieval commentary to Babylonian Talmud, Tamid 29b

Rabeinu Gershom to Tractate Tamid p. 29b

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

Rabeinu Bachya, commentary to Exodus 35:2

Mishnah, Baba Kama 10:1

Rashi, Genesis 1:11

Ramban, commentary on Exodus 35:21

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

Tosefta Yevamot 8:4

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 53b

Rashi, Genesis 49:15

Ibn Ezra, Psalms 115:16

Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 112b

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 101b

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

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

Nigel Savage on tithing today

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

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 11b

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

Midrash Deuteronomy Raba, 6:7

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

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

Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 336:3

Rashi, Numbers 20:2

Rashi, Deuteronomy 6:18

Rashi, Genesis 41:55

Genesis Rabbah ch. 5, sub. 10

Ecclesiastes Rabbah 12:14

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 18b

Pesikta d'Rav Kahana 22:2

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

Judge Louis D. Brandeis, 1929

Rashi, Exodus 3:1

Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 43b

Tosafot Berachot 29b, s.v. mevarech

Rashi to Genesis 1:26

Rashi, Genesis 13:6

Ramban on Deuteronomy 24:15

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 4:19

Perush Rabbenu Yonah on Avot 4:7

Rashi, Deuteronomy 13:5

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 8a

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

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

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

Beyond Beef, Jeremy Rifkin

Gur Arieh (Maharal), Genesis 34:13

Rashi, Leviticus 17:3

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

Rashi to Genesis 2:24

Midrash Tehilim 104

Babylonian Talmud: Eruvin 95b

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

Exodus Rabbah 1:14

Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 109a

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

Leviticus Rabbah 34:1.2

Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 251:3

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

Rashi, Genesis 6:2

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 83a

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

Mishneh Torah, The Laws of Transgressors 3:3

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Chagigah 2b

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34:.1

Rashi, Genesis 41:50

Sforno on Genesis 12:2

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

Leviticus Rabbah 6.2

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 53b

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b

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

Ha’emek Davar, Deuteronomy 15:7

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

BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin 73a

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

Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34:2

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 139b

Metzudat David, Judges 4:4

Exodus Rabbah, Mishpatim, 31:13

Midrash Rabbah - Leviticus 22:2

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

Rambam, Mishnah, Sukkah 3:1

Sforno, Numbers 35:4

Rabbi Israel, Maggid of Ksnitz

Targum Yonatan, Deuteronomy 24:17-18

The D'var Torah by Anna Hanau

Ibn Ezra, Numbers 24:6

Kizzur Shulchan Arukh 34:1

Babylonian Talmud, Chagigah 2b

Leviticus Rabbah 32:8

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 36a

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

Rashi, Deuteronomy 16:13

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

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

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

Genesis Rabbah 13:3

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

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

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 35a

Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zara, 54a

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 140b

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1950

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

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

Golda Meir, Women's Liberation

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

Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 103a

Rashi, Exodus 23:9

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 61b

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

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

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

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

R. Hayyim of Brisk

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

Rashi, Deuteronomy 24:15

Jerusalem Talmud, Peah 8:8

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 112a

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

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

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

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

Perushei Rav Yehuda HeHasid

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

Rashi Moed Qattan 24b

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

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

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

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

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

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