Q&A: Human Reason and Jewish Law
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Human Reason and Jewish Law
Question
Does the Rabbi agree with the things brought here in the name of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and Dor Revi’i?
https://forum.otzar.org/viewtopic.php?t=33184#p356936
Answer
This takes us back to column 154 regarding aesthetic-human values; see the examples there.
I tend not to agree. A non-formal moral prohibition, fine. But a non-formal human prohibition does not seem to me as though it would override.
And in general, the disgrace in this is not clear to me, aside from a feeling of revulsion (see that column again).