Morality and Skepticism
Hi Rabbi, I would be happy to help you. The principles of morality themselves are a function of cultural development – and therefore it is difficult for me to understand how I can be obligated to morality. If morality changes and according to what I heard from you, morality is instilled in us by God and therefore has divine validity, as is also the Torah, which is divine – how can I be sure that what I do is considered moral – when I have a dilemma between morality and halacha –
*It always sounds right to me to choose Halacha because Halacha is clear and it is certainly true – and morality is true, but I am not sure that my morality is correct if it changes and it may turn out in the future that it is immoral*
First, is there no change or disagreement in the law? Second, why are you sure it is from God? The vast majority of the law is a human creation.
Second, the fact that there are changes in morality does not mean that there is no objective morality. There is objective morality and we progress with the generations just as science advances. Beyond that, it is clear that there are disagreements on the margins, but the core is usually agreed upon.
You can’t be sure of anything, neither in law nor in morality. But a judge has only what his eyes see.
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