Perfectly righteous
Hello Rabbi,
I have no problem thinking about people who are completely evil – Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, etc.
Obviously, there are also many righteous people, but it’s hard for me to think of people who are completely righteous, on the same level of righteousness as the above-mentioned wicked people. Do you think there could be such a righteous person? Do you know such people? And what does a person have to do to strive for this?
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If someone asks me how to be completely evil, I simply tell them, "genocide." If someone asks me how to be completely righteous, I don't know how to answer them. To study Torah all day? To be a doctor? A businessman? An athlete? A community rabbi?
A pluralist might say that there is no such thing, and that everyone needs to find their own path, and contribute in the way that best suits them.
As a monist, do you think there is a clear path in which one can strive to be completely righteous?
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There is no one way to do either.
It seems to me that there is a difference between morally wicked and religiously wicked. For example, Ahab was completely wicked religiously, but morally he was probably righteous until the story of Naboth's vineyard. Separating the different cases will help to focus the question.
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