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Universal morality – based on what?

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שאל לפני 9 שנים

Hello Rabbi Michael.
I know your approach regarding the separation between Torah and morality. There is universal morality, which is binding on everyone, and there is Halacha, which is binding on the Jewish people. These are two parallel levels. According to this, we do not learn morality from Halacha, but from our natural intuitions.
If this is so, why does the Torah command "and do what is right and good"? Ostensibly, this causes all moral acts to be done by virtue of the Torah, even if it is not clear from it what exactly the morality is. It is not clear why the Torah actually commands this natural matter (what is the "innovation").

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Hello Hagai. The Torah does not command, "Do what is right and good." The enumerators of the commandments do not count this as a commandment. It writes this to make it clear to us that behavior according to natural morality is a religious requirement. The fact is that the Torah does not specify what that right and good is. It apparently relies on our universal conscience. See my fourth notebook, which says that without faith in God there is no morality. But this does not make morality a halakhic obligation but a religious obligation. It is the will of God, not His commandments.

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