VEGETARIANISM, ECOLOGY & BUSINESS ETHICS: Three Essays of Judaic Insights into Contemporary Concerns

This volume contains three essays of interrelated themes: vegetarianism, ecology, and business ethics.

Each theme is examined from a halachic, ethical, philosophical, and socio-economic viewpoint, and is closely analyzed within the broad spectrum of Judaic sources. All of this leads to a number of practical conclusions, which seek to illuminate the challenging situations in each field.

About The Author:

Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber is a leading scholar of Jewish law, customs, and ethics. He taught in the Talmud Department of Bar-Ilan University, where he also served as dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies and president of the Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies. In 1992, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies. For close to five decades, Rabbi Sperber served as rabbi in Jerusalem, first at Yad Tamar Synagogue in Katamon and then at Menachem Zion Synagogue in the Old City. 

Prof. Sperber has published more than thirty books and over four hundred articles on the subjects of Talmudic and Jewish socioeconomic history, law and customs, classical philology, and Jewish art. Among his major works is a well-known, eight-volume series, Minhagei Yisrael, on the history of Jewish customs. More recently, he has written books on halachic methodology and rabbinic decision making in confrontation with modernity and has established an independent beit din dealing with agunah issues. 

He is the author of On Changes in Jewish Liturgy: Options and Limitations; On the Relationship of Mitzvot Between Man and His Neighbor and Man and His Maker; The Importance of the Community Rabbi: Leading with Compassionate Halachah; and Rabba, Maharat, Rabbanit, Rebbetzin: Women with Leadership Authority According to Halachah, all published by Urim Publications.

Professor Sperber has published thirty books and more than four hundred articles on the subjects of Talmudic and Jewish socio-economic history, law and customs, classical philology and Jewish art. Among his major works is a well-known eight-volume series,'Minhagei Yisrael, on the history of Jewish customs. Most recently, he has written two books on halachic methodology and rabbinic decision making in confrontation with modernity, and the present work continues these avenues of inquiry.