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asked 4 days ago

Hello.
I heard your latest podcast with Raz Zauber and I really enjoyed it. I always enjoy hearing and getting more things from you.
I just had two questions that I would like you to explain to me.
A: I already know your opinion that the authority for morality is God. In the conversation you gave an example of the moral prohibition against murder, which is based on the value of human life, and those who do not believe in God lack the authority that gives value to human life. But you, as a believer, said that there is a moral authority from God, who said in the image of God he made man. I understand from you that the moral authority of not murdering, at least, is an authority that stems from the Torah. And not only from God?
B. You said that a person who, for example, gives charity, for various reasons other than performing a mitzvah, is a “good” person but does not fulfill a mitzvah. I asked what about the words of Chazal, although they are about studying Torah, but I did not recognize a difference between them: that from not for the sake of it, one will come for the sake of it?


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מיכי Staff answered 4 days ago
A. Morality does not need the Torah. Even if there is a source for moral obligation in the Torah, this does not elevate or detract. It is clear that the Torah sees a moral prohibition against murder, I brought Cain. But Cain himself was supposed to know this even before he read it in the Torah. B. There is no need to study Torah. Regarding specific charity, the Gemara says “so that my son may live.” My argument is that if a person believes in God and the giving of the Torah and in a commitment to the law, then he can do a mitzvah not for its own sake and it will have value (less than doing it for its own sake). But if he does it for ulterior reasons even though he does not believe in his obligation, there is no mitzvah here at all.

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