Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
Although this is probably the best-known commandment in the Bible, it is not the most commented upon. After A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy, Rabbi Telushkin’s second volume of the first major code of Jewish ethics written in the English language will be released on February 10, 2009.
Here is what the editor says about it:
Writing with great clarity and simplicity as well as with deep wisdom, Telushkin covers topics such as love and kindness, hospitality, visiting the sick, comforting mourners, charity, relations between Jews and non-Jews, compassion for animals, tolerance, self-defense, and end-of-life issues. Writing with great clarity and simplicity as well as with deep wisdom, Telushkin covers topics such as love and kindness, hospitality, visiting the sick, comforting mourners, charity, relations between Jews and non-Jews, compassion for animals, tolerance, self-defense, and end-of-life issues.
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski seems to think highly of this book:
“Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has done it again! An amazing task, clarifying and elaborating upon the essential elements of Judaism. To present a most scholarly work in a reader-friendly format is truly an achievement. This is a book that should be in every Jewish home.”
I read the first volume in 2006 and here what I wrote about it at the time:
In this book, Rabbi Telushkin develops some of the ideas he tackled in The Book of Jewish Values, underlining how ethics are part and parcel of Judaism. The more I read it the more it challenged me and made me think of my interactions with the people around me.
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