Religious values
Hello Rabbi
Happy to be happy.
You have written in several places that the commandments have religious values, which are something different from moral values.
I wanted to ask what the difference is between the different types of values. After all, the obligation to obey the Torah is essentially moral (gratitude/commitment to the One who created me).
And more than that: the one who commanded the Torah values is probably the same one who commanded the moral values, and therefore, again, obedience to both is based on the same principle, so what is the difference?
Thank you very much.
I do not think that the obligation to observe a mitzvah is a moral value. The gratitude in question is not gratitude in the moral sense. See my article:
https://mikyab.net/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%AA-%D7%98%D7%95%D7%91%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9F-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A8-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94
The fact that the same being commanded them both does not mean that they have the same weight and that they are of the same type. The fact is that most commandments do not have moral reasons.
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