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Выпуск: 3 ENG MIKEITZ Chevrutah24x7 #10. Темы: не определены автоматически. ISSUE Ne 3 30 KISLEV 5783 J bal Chanuk Jews and Economics non profit Two | ue Miketz We know that Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes: over 20 per cent of them from a group that represents 0.2 per cent of the world population, an over-representation of 100 to one. So, having diagnosed the problem, he immediately proceeds to a solution: Use the good years to build up resources for the lean times, a sound instance of long-term economic planning: Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. Max Weber famously argued that it was the Protestant (primarily Calvinist) ethic that shaped "the spirit of capitalism.” Rodney Stark argued that it was the Catholic Church that did so, prior to the Reformation.’ The author of the first great text of market economics, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776), was a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment whose religious views hovered between conventional Christianity and Deism. Third was the Judaic sense of linear time: time not as a series of 2 9 CHEVRUTAH24.7 WhatsApp : +1(347) 770-1502 EducationOnTheGo.net THO] cycles in which everything eventually returns to the way it was, but rather as an arena of change, development, and progress. Jonathan Haidt calls them WEIRD: that is, they belong to societies that are Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic.’ To my mind, the most decisive single factor - the great break of Judaism from the ancient world of magic, mystery, and myth - was the deconsecration of nature that followed from the fact that God created nature by an act of will, and by making us in His image, gave us too the creative power of will. So Jews have tended to become, out of all proportion to their numbers, lawyers fighting injustice, doctors fighting disease, teachers fighting ignorance, economists fighting poverty, and (especially in modern Israel) agricultural technologists finding new ways to grow food in environments where it has never grown before. 7 Jonathan Haid, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided hy Politics andstReligion (London: Penguin, 2013) JUDAISM’S LIFE-CHANGING IDEAS A weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible wwwrabbisacks.org Judaism's Life Changing Ideas is available to purchase at www.korenpub

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