The Right and the Good

In an effort to respond to the baseless criticism that Jewish law is overly preoccupied with religious ritual at the expense of issues having to do with interpersonal relationships, the author presents a detailed exploration of the vast attention that the masters of Jewish thought have given to relations between and among individuals. This book is not a legal guide to interpersonal relationships in Jewish life, nor is it a volume of moral exhortation. Rather, Rabbi Feldman aims to convey the importance of his subject by exhibiting its hallowed place within the structure of Jewish law and within the analysis that interpersonal relationships have been given among the giants in the field of Jewish thought.

Daniel Z. Feldman received his rabbinical ordination at Yeshiva University and is a member of Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon at RIETS. Rabbi Feldman attended Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh and was the co-editor of Ykara D'Chaim, memorial volume for Rosh Yeshiva of KBY. He also served as the former co-editor of Beit Yitzchak (Yeshiva University's talmudical journal). Rabbi Feldman is involved with the National Conference of Synagogue Youth at regional and national levels as well as the Israel summer Kollel program. Rabbi Feldman lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.