Summary
Medieval philosopher and poet, author of the Kitab al Khazari (Book of the Khazars, completed around 1140) (A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler, PDF p.67).
Details
- HaLevi reminds his readers, in Tucker’s account, that the Sabbath is to be understood as “m’ayn ha’olam ha’ba” — “a taste of the world to come”: the material world of labor and the condition of completion are not ontologically distinct realms but separate, recurrent temporal moments, pulses in a cycle of days that both repeat and differentiate (PDF p.67).
- Given that ethics are to be evaluated in terms of behaviors rather than the beliefs or intentions underlying them, HaLevi explains, behaving ethically becomes a matter of practice in both senses — the things one does, and the things one does over and again so as to do them better and better (PDF p.67-68).
Related pages
A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler, Ceremonial law, Jewish republicanism