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Morality and nothing else

שו"תMorality and nothing else
שאל לפני 4 שנים

To the Rabbi Shalom
After hearing the distinction the rabbi makes between moral values ​​and religious values, both of which can be independent and at the same time come from God's will, the following idea (very difficult for me as a religious person) occurred to me:
If we believe in God, it is indeed logical to say that He wants us to be moral, since He has clearly imposed moral values ​​on us. It is even logical to say that He also expects those who do not believe in Him to be moral, since He created them with the knowledge of moral values.
But why should we believe that he expects us to practice any religion?
After all, he did not impose religious values ​​on us, and we are forced to rely on testimonies from hundreds or thousands of years ago and/or on various signs, which, even if these are serious testimonies and signs, are not at all difficult to find a refutation of.
It is actually logical to say that God is not interested in any worship, religion, prayer, or law. "Who told you to do this?" He could ask. And this, again, is contrary to the moral values ​​that He did reveal to us.
In other words, if God wanted us to uphold other values ​​besides moral values, why wouldn't He reveal them to us as clearly and directly as He revealed moral values ​​to us?


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מיכי צוות ענה לפני 4 שנים
I have no idea. But this is an irrelevant claim. There are two possibilities: A. It is plausible in your opinion that there was a Mount Sinai event and that the Torah was given there and that it is binding on us. B. It is unlikely in your opinion that such a situation existed. If option B is correct, then there is no justification for keeping the commandments, regardless of your question. If option A is correct, then there is an obligation to the commandments, but you have a problem with why God chose a different way to convey them to us. Here the conclusion is that you do not understand his way of thinking and considerations, but this has nothing to do with the obligation itself. Do you understand all of his other decisions? The righteous and the wicked? The suffering in the world? The prohibition of pork, or the redemption of a donkey's scapegoat? And much more. Of course, it is possible that you are in a situation where you are debating carefully between exactly two options, and this question is the decisive one. But this is a very rare situation and it is unlikely that you are exactly there (in the language of halakhah: it is impossible to narrow down). If this is the case, then it is reasonable to make a decision accordingly.

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