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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility  Corporate Social Responsibility has become a major factor in the running of large corporations. Just as an individual should not Halachically engage in businesses where the profit is derived from illicit behaviour (such as running a house of prostitution or kidnapping innocent young girls for this purpose), so has the idea been extended to Corporations. Whatever the current efficacy of this movement, it is clearly a step […]

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr vs Robert Bork

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The Tempting of America by Robert H. Bork “In the past few decades American institutions have struggled with the temptations of politics. Professions and academic disciplines that once possessed a life and structure of their own have steadily succumbed, in some cases almost entirely, to the belief that nothing matters beyond politically desirable results, however achieved. In this quest, politics invariably tries to dominate another discipline, to capture […]

חביב אדם שנברא בצלם

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  PDF משניות זכר חנוך – ח (נזיקין ב) משנה משנה מסכת אבות פרק ג משנה יד  PDF משנה מסכת אבות פרק ג משנה יד [יד] הוא היה אומר חביב אדם שנברא בצלם חבה יתירה נודעת לו שנברא בצלם שנאמר (בראשית ט) בצלם אלהים עשה את האדם חביבין ישראל שנקראו בנים למקום חבה יתירה נודעת להם שנקראו בנים למקום שנאמר (דברים י”ד) בנים אתם לה’ אלהיכם חביבין ישראל […]

B’NAI NOACH AND DINIM

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Masechta Sanhedrin, 56a, derives and lists the Seven Noachide Laws. Dinim is one of them.  Dinim means that in any civil society, courts of law and a police force must be set up.  Courts of law implies a legal system must be erected. According to Rabbi Yitzchak, the Rabbis require that any legal system be modeled according to Jewish Law. Rabbi Yochanan states that the nations of the […]

Benedict Spinoza – Key Citations

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Benedict Spinoza – key citations: Theologico-Political Treatise Wherefore this eternal covenant of the knowledge of G-d and love is universal, as is clear, moreover, from Zeph iii. 10, 11; no difference in this respect can be admitted between Jew and Gentile, nor did the former enjoy any special election beyond that which we have pointed out. At the present time, therefore, there is absolutely nothing which the Jews […]

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)

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Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) After the custom of the times, Coke wrote his Reports in Norman French, with pleadings entered in Latin. But the several Prefaces were, happily, in English, though tradition was served by printing the Latin beside it. Coke had early told Sir Robert Cecil that he wished “the cases could be as well understood as the Prefaces, and then they would both teach and delight” […]

שו”ת הרמ”א סימן י

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PDF 2ש-ת הרמ-א סימן י שו”ת הרמ”א סימן י א גרסינן בסנהדרין פרק ארבע מיתותב אר”י שבע מצות נצטוו בני נח דאמר קרא ויצו ה’ אלהים על האדם לאמר מכל עץ הגן אכל תאכלג ויצו אלו הדינין, וכן הוא אומר כי ידעתיו את /למען/ אשר יצוה את בניו וגו’ד ה’ זו ברכת השם, וכן הוא אומר ונוקב שם ה’ וגו’ה אלהים זו ע”ז, וכן הוא אומר לא יהיה […]

WHY THIS SITE WAS CREATED

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This Website is a challenge to the Old to think like the New. And it is a challenge to the New to think like the Old. This is a Torah Oriented Website and we are exploring here the nature of Torah and Torah Study. We are investigating the basic assumptions that underlie all of Torah thinking – that which makes it unique among Systems of Thought – and […]