Morality from God is refinement.
Hello Rabbi.
1. Is there morality and meaning for man, assuming there is no Torah but no God? All morality comes from God, but without the Torah telling about the image of God, who said there should be morality towards man?
2. If God gives meaning, how does that create morality at all? What is the connection between the good and evil inherent in us and the fact that there is a metaphysical mentality in the universe, which is God?
3. What is the overlap between morality and good and evil, that is, killing a murderer is an immoral but good action? Are good and evil and morality always the same thing?
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- The wording is confusing and I’m not sure I understood the question. Does morality have meaning without Torah? Of course it does. Without God – in my opinion, absolutely not. See the fourth notebook, Ch.
- I didn’t understand what “the good and evil inherent in us” is. The tendency to do good and avoid evil? That has nothing to do with morality. Morality is a decision, not a tendency. But a decision requires that there be a standard and a source of validity for the values of good and evil between which one chooses. See the notebook there.
- I didn’t understand this gibberish. Killing a murderer is a wonderfully moral act. Of course, if one of his limbs can be saved, killing him is forbidden, and then the act is immoral. Perhaps you mean to say that killing a person is bad and if he is a murderer, it is good, so there is a situation of “postponement” here between the value of human life and the value of punishing the perpetrator. I see no point in different definitions of morality and goodness. At most, it is a conflict between values.
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