The Value of Life in Jewish Law

This book discusses the value of life and its derivatives, including a series of profound issues such as the preservation of life overriding religious considerations, definition of “risk” in patients who are mortally ill, and the definition of actions as life-preserving, actions done to prevent endangerment of the public, or to avoid future risk, war situations, life-preservation and property rights, obligations deriving from Good Samaritan laws, the meaning of rescue from persecution, taking risk for livelihood, and other topics at the heart of practice and theory.
Published by Feldheim Publishers, 2010.