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Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
Isaac Lifshitz is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion. He received his rabbinical ordination from Rabbis Yitzhak Kulitz and David Nesher. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from Tel Aviv University, holds an M.A. in Jewish History from Touro College, and studied at the Hebron Yeshiva. His areas of research include Jewish philosophy, Talmud, Jewish law, Jewish history, and Political Theory. In his study of Jewish Philosophy and history, his main focus is on the philosophy and history of Ashkenaz in the high Middle-Ages. Isaac Lifshitz is an amateur musician. He is a violist and plays in a quartet. He is married and has seven children.
Bibliography
Original Books
R. Meir of Rothenburg and the Foundations of Jewish Political Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Free Market and Jewish Law (Acton Institute, forthcoming). רזא דשבת (ירושלים: הוצאת שלם, תש"ע [תשנ"ט]).
The Secret of Shabbat (Jerusalem: Sadnat Enosh, 1999).
Papers and Book Chapters
“The Place of Developmental Self-Ordering in Judaism: Kahal as Spontaneous Order,” Journal of Markets & Morality (Spring 2010)
“The Special Names of God,” Hakira 9 (winter 2010)
“Zedaka and Chesed, the Privet and the Community,” On Economy and Distribution, Ed. A. Brener and A. a. Lavi (Jerusalem: Ruben Mas, 2009)
“For the Traditional Music of Jewish Prayer,” Akdamot 21 (Hebrew) (Elul 5768)
“Far Away, So Close,” Azure 31 (Winter 2008)
“Uvanta Deliba and Infinity – On the Tension Between the Subjective and the Objective Perception of God,” Daat 62 (Hebrew) (Winter 2008)
“Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and his Halakhik thought,” Yoav Sorek (ed.), Rabbi Moshe Feinstein: Milk of Non-Jews (Jerusalem: Reuven Mas, 2007)
“Welfare, Property and the Divine Image in Jewish Law and Thought,” Markets, Morals and Religion (New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2006)
“Welfare, Property, and Charity in Jewish Thought,” Transaction 44 (January 2007)
“The Political Theology of Maharam of Rothenburg,” Hebraic Political Studies (Summer 2006)
“Defining Divinity Down,” Azure 20 (Spring 2005)
“Between Authority and Autonomy,” Azure 7 (Spring 1999)
Courses Taught
Introduction to the Philosophy of Law Jewish Law and the Definition of the Polity The Phenomenology of God: From Plotinus to R. Haim of Volozhin The Phenomenology of Halacha The Politics of the Talmud Bioethics and Jewish Law Reading the Guide of the Perplexed
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