Morality versus Halacha
Peace and blessings, Rabbi.
I read the first book in the trilogy and I still don’t really understand why, after we accepted that there is a God and that there is a certain logic to why he created the world for a certain purpose that he demands of us, this shouldn’t be morality?
Why does the fact that morality also creates a social order detract from it having religious value?
And after I accepted this as a religious value, then there is no need to seek revelation, because the commandment came to us without revelation but naturally.
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But if one can receive a command through intuition like morality, why do we need revelation?
Why can't one claim to the dog that rational life is the divine command because it comes in a similar way to morality? After all, morality is my test case for something that God commanded, so perhaps all the laws that He commands come from this way.
Because what is not a moral command we have no intuition about. A rational life depends on goals. Rationality is choosing the best way to reach goals. But what are goals? That requires revelation.
Social order and morality are very different things.
For example, marriage.
Giving a special status to a certain person and putting everyone else in an inferior position is an immoral act.
Another example, preferring your children over the children of others, is racism, and it is immoral.
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