Leibowitz and values
Hello Rabbi
According to Leibowitz, religion is not a statement about reality but a value choice. As I understand it, the act of observing the law and worshiping God is a value act, but faith itself is not a value act, but an objective matter (God truly exists and truly revealed Himself to His people at Sinai).
I wanted to ask why you reject the view that religion is a supreme value that you choose. Why do you think it is a concept with a connection to objective reality?
thanks!
I don’t understand this strange question.
Without God’s command to put on tefillin, I see no value in such an act. In the same way that a person can decide that there is a supreme value in redeeming a pig’s fat or standing on one leg every day at 11 a.m.
By the way, in my opinion Leibowitz definitely believed in God and, in my opinion, also in the giving of the Torah.
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