Authors: Daniel B. Kohn
ISBN-13: 9780765700131, ISBN-10: 0765700131
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Many people struggle to make wise and appropriate decisions about how to express their angry and violent feelings, whether to drink alcohol or use drugs, or how to fulfill their sexual desires. The Jewish tradition is replete with prudent and intelligent insights regarding these challenging realms of human behavior. Gleaned from many classic Jewish works, Rabbi Kohn' s Sex, Drugs and Violence in the Jewish Tradition presents Judaism's views on these relevant and controversial subjects in order to challenge readers to develop their own moral perspective and derive their own ethical guidance.
Pt. I | Violence in the Jewish tradition | |
1 | Confronting gossip | 3 |
2 | Rebuking your fellow person | 19 |
3 | Dealing with anger | 39 |
4 | Self-defense | 53 |
5 | War | 71 |
6 | Peace | 83 |
Pt. II | Drugs (alcohol) in the Jewish tradition | |
7 | Wine in the Hebrew Bible | 95 |
8 | The rabbis on wine | 107 |
9 | The lighter side of wine | 121 |
10 | The problem with Purim | 129 |
11 | Caring for our bodies | 139 |
Pt. III | Sex in the Jewish tradition | |
12 | Morality and sexuality | 147 |
13 | Holiness and sexuality | 161 |
14 | Sex that hurts or destroys | 173 |
15 | Nonmarital sex | 187 |
16 | Marital sex | 199 |