Where is the morality in God in the Torah and Halacha?
Hello,, I heard during your classes that you indicate that you believe morality is not relative., That although we don't all feel the same, there is nevertheless a divine morality. (or absolute, If you wish) which is a true morality that the Torah tries to explain to us.
I'm trying to figure out how this works., If we see that the Sages explicitly disagree with divine morality in their halakhic rulings, Whether it's about "an eye for an eye" or "the ox shall be stoned and its owner shall be put to death", And in other cases, we also see that the Sages adopt a different morality than that written in the Torah..
Also Moshe Halbertal, In his book "Interpretive Revolutions in the Making", Shows that the Sages were guided by their personal moral perception, And of course there are the words of the Gra. – Halacha uproots the Bible.
In light of all this, Does Halacha have anything to do with divine morality??
If we do not take morality from the Bible but interpret it as we wish, How can we say that there is a morality that we have taken from a place other than our personal inclinations?
And if morality is indeed our personal inclination, How can we say that we are investigating any divine morality?? Or even that this morality exists? (Of course, what I wrote is not *conflicting* The observance of divine morality, It is simply a sublime morality and is in no way accessible to us., Therefore, any discussion of it is meaningless., At least to my understanding)
Another question arises here., If they are weak, they are the authority., And they can undermine the Torah, Does God have a place in this equation?? Are we servants of God or servants of Hazal??
After all, even the rules that limit Hazal (prima facie) Created by Hazal themselves, And there is controversy about them too. (Although I'm not knowledgeable about the subject, that's what it looks like.)
I don't know what you listened to during my classes, but you didn't hear that from me. In my opinion, morality is indeed not relative, but there is no divine morality and no divine morality, Jewish morality and no Jewish morality, and it certainly isn't learned from the Torah. See column 541 and much more here on the site.
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