Writer: Daniel Edelman

March 14, 2013
4:00 am

Both brilliant and benevolent

Eugene Korn correctly observes that Jewish ethics focuses on chesed (loving kindness) but creates the mistaken impression that Maimonides and the Gaon of Vilna de-emphasized the chesed imperative (“Brilliance and benevolence,” March 8). Nothing could be further from the teachings of Maimonides or the legacy of the Vilna Gaon. In his commentary on the Ethics […]

By Daniel Edelman