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Religion and law

שו”תReligion and law
asked 5 years ago

What is the distinction between a religious act and a legal act?
Why does religion require that religious acts be accompanied by the motivation of ‘acceptance in God’ while the law does not require a person to pay taxes out of motivation? What is the root of the division?


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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago
The root of the division is that the law is teleological (purposeful-consequential), while the halakha is deontological (willing and doing). Therefore, intention is important in morality as well. In the third book of the trilogy, I think I explain this.

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ש' replied 5 years ago

And where does this division itself come from? That is, from where does it say that God wants “action” and not “we will act”?

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

From the Gemara. It is all filled with the fact that the results do not determine. He does not intend and that he is a shill for example. And hundreds of other issues, Zil Keri Bi Rav is.

קרדיגנו replied 5 years ago

R”L It is not only the results that determine, but also not only the act and the desire. Therefore, the shooter who shoots at a person and it turns out that he is wearing a ceramic vest and the bullet ricochets off his chest, the shooter goes his own way and is sharp (in my opinion, the only justification for such a scandal is technical in nature).

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

of course.

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