“The Pain of Raising Children” Using Care Ethics to Understand Jewish Leadership
In this session, we’ll explore how recent shifts in moral philosophy can help us understand why the rabbis require that a judge on a Sanhedrin be a parent. What do the rabbis think that the experience of parenting teaches a potential judge? How does this help us understand what it means to be a halakhic thinker and leader?
Ms. Zager suggests that these texts imagine halakhic leadership as requiring both specific experiences of caring for others as well as relevant technical expertise.
