This essay explores the “Country versus Mother” moral dilemma by contrasting Jean Paul Sartre’s atheist perspective of individual choice in a moral vacuum with the Torah’s divine moral framework, which unequivocally concludes that national defense and community welfare override personal filial responsibilities in times of commanded war.
Overarching theme of the four parshiot, Existentialism, Morality, Parshat Shekalim, Zachor, Para, Hodesh, DRASH
Rabbinic v Biblical commands, Bal Tosif, Hatam Sofer, Existentialism, Purpose, Hannuka, yom HaAtzmaut, DRASH
Four “Why”s, Rivka, Eisav, Camus, Existentialism, Parshat Toldot, DRASH ONLY
Judgment to Joy, Existentialism, Purpose, Parshat Haazinu, Sukkot, DRASH
Absurd, Purpose, Existentialism, Camus, Parshat Hukat, Para Aduma
Existentialism, Nihilism, God, Mathematical Balance of Tribes, Where did the Leviim stand, Parshat Re’eh, Ki Tavo
Species Man, Man Of God, Adam I, Adam II, Existentialism, Parshat Toldot
