Judaism on Pleasure

by Reuven P. Bulka

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568213085
• ISBN13: 9781568213088
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Jewish way is the middle way

Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka has written an informative work on the Jewish conception of Pleasure. His main idea is that the Jewish view scorns both asceticism and hedonism and favors a balanced attitude toward Pleasure. He illustrates this through his nine chapters. The first details the context in which the topic is treated. The second discusses the obligation to maintain one's health, and the third centers on avoiding pain. The fourth chapter explores depression and mental anguish, and Jewish teachings in regard to them. Chapter five deals with the experience of Pleasure itself. Chapter six with enjoying life and making it pleasurable for others. Chapter seven on the pleasures of food and chapter eight on sensual pleasure. Rabbi Bulka concludes as follows" Judaism on pleasure, the essential Jewish statement about pleasure, may read like this: Enjoy life, find and give meaning to all aspects and conditions of life in accordance with the life- affirming guidelines of the Torah, and you will experience tthe feeling of being pleased. This is at once, the pleasure principle as well as its high- yield interest." p.168