Showing posts with label Rabbi Jill Jacobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rabbi Jill Jacobs. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2023

There Shall Be No Needy, Conclusion: Justice and the Justice System

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I'm going to skip over the chapter of There Shall Be No Needy that deals with the environment, because although Jacobs explicitly recogn...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

There Shall Be No Needy, Part 7: Society, Heal Thyself!

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The importance of providing health care is such an assumption in the Jewish culture I grew up in that I was surprised to learn it was ever d...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

There Shall Be No Needy, Part 6: What makes a home?

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As a former tenant and a longtime landlord, as someone who worked at an agency that prevented eviction and as a member of a city commission ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

There Shall Be No Needy: How does she get that from the sources?

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If you've been following my summaries of There Shall Be No Needy by Rabbi Jill Jacobs here , here , here , here , and even here , you m...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

There Shall Be No Needy, part 5: The dignity of labor

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 One thing to remember about Torah and work: Don't be like Pharaoh. Be like Boaz. According to chapter 5 of Rabbi Jill Jacobs'  Ther...
Monday, December 26, 2022

There Shall Be No Needy, part 4: What Are Needs? How Do We Meet Them?

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Two things become clear as I go through Rabbi Jill Jacobs' book There Shall Be No Needy : how much society has changed since the classic...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

There Shall Be No Needy, part 3: Taking time, place, and person into account

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What constitutes poverty? Is there such a thing as "the" poverty line? And is it always based on the amount a person owns, or do s...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

There Shall Be No Needy, part 2: Righteous Rulers and Prophetic Voices

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 Along with tikkun olam , another oft-repeated motto of Jewish progressives is "Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof." I remember it on a banner ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

There Shall Be No Needy, part 1: What Tikkun Olam means in depth

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I came to read Rabbi Jill Jacobs' book There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law & Tradition because Rabb...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Opening Ourselves to the Pain of the Other

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I've been brought to a halt in my Tisha B'Av reflections by the ongoing death and destruction in Palestine and the emergency in Isra...