Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 239-263
Keywords:
Lévinas, Emmanuel Criticism and interpretation
;
Ethics Philosophy
;
God (Judaism)
Abstract:
Reversing the familiar nostrum that religion – with its omniscient omnipotent onto-theological God - is the buttress of ethics and of all things of value; Levinas follows Kant’s enlightened claim that ethics is the real truth of religion, that the imperatives of kindness (“love thy neighbor”) and of social justice are religions highest teaching, the very essence of holiness, religion for adults. The Akedah is thus a test as much of God’s justice as of Abraham’s faith. Rituals, holidays, traditions, halakha, sacred texts, Talmudic learning, and so on, retain their worth as service to kindness and justice, else, taken sacramentally, they devolve into superstition and fanaticism.
DOI:
10.1017/9781108233705.011
URL:
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