Using as his point of departure the bioethicist Leon Kass’s 2001 essay “L’Chaim and Its Limits,” Meir Soloveichik explores why Judaism places such a high premium on life itself, the importance of children and fertility, and traditional attitudes toward mortality, the soul, and the afterlife. (Interview by Eric Cohen; audio, 33 minutes.)
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