Morality; Ethics; Values

There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great “vision,” chazon, that gives its name to the Shabbat before Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the Jewish year. It is more than gr...

The distribution of the word tzedek and its derivate tzedakah in the Five Books of Moses is anything but random.