Key moral principles, sanctity of life, free will

Cards (12)

  • Justice
    bringing about what is right and fair
  • Tikkun Olam
    Healing the world
  • Healing the world: being involved in God's work to sustain the world; it can involve work to increase social justice or to preserve the environment
  • Charity: showing kindness by giving money/gifts/time to organizations or people that need them. Could also be an organisation that does not make a profit whose main purpose is to help others.
  • kindness to others: positive, caring actions that should be shown to all living things
  • Talmud: Consists of the Mishna and Gemara - The Oral law
  • Pikuach Nefesh: The obligation to save a life, even if doing so breaks Jewish law
  • free will: The idea that God gives human beings the opportunity to make decisions for themselves
  • GIFT (Give It Forward Today): A Jewish Charity started in 2003 to educate and inpsire yound people to become givers.
  • 248: The number of positive Mitzvot
  • 365: The number fo negative Mitzvot
  • Maimonides: Wrote the Mishneh Torah