This essay has two primary objectives. First, acknowledging the fact that the philosopher’s fundamental responsibility, due to the conditions of social order in many regions and nations around the world, requires not merely thought but also actions that transform this world into a more equitable and inclusive one, the author proposes to show the reader a simple way (among many other possibiliti...

Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher (1795–1874), best known for his proto-national thinking and advocacy of settlement in the Land Israel third quarter 19th century, was crowned a preeminent ”Precursor Zionism”. However, halakhic teachings, which have never been properly researched, represent fount perspectives that help refine our understanding ideological activist program. This article focuses on Mozna...

and conceptual constructions are often presented in the form of general principles. 127 When the academic scholar relies upon principles, in other words, he does 126 For a strong statement of this view see Shalom Albeck’s introduction to his Dinei mamonot batalmud (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1976), pp., 13-31, translated in Jackson (note 118, above), pp. 1-20. That law should embody the characteristic of ...