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Where is the morality in God in the Torah and Halacha?

שו”תCategory: faithWhere is the morality in God in the Torah and Halacha?
asked 8 months ago

Hello,I heard during your lessons that you state that in your opinion morality is not relative , that although we do not all feel the same, there is nevertheless a divine morality ( or absolute morality , if you will ) which is true morality that the Torah tries to explain to us .
I am trying to understand how this works out , if we see that the Sages explicitly disagree with divine morality in halakhic rulings , whether regarding “an eye for an eye” or “the ox shall be stoned and its owner shall also be put to death , ” and also in other cases we see that the Sages adopt a morality that is different from that written in the Torah .
Moshe Halbertal , in his book “Interpretative Revolutions in the Making ,” also shows that the Sages were guided by their personal moral perception , and of course there are the words of the Gra. Halacha uproots the Bible .
In light of all this , does Halacha have anything to do with divine morality??
If we do not take morality from the Bible but interpret it as we wish , how can we say that there is morality that we have taken from a place other than our personal inclinations?
And if morality is indeed our personal inclination , how can we say that we are investigating any divine morality ? Or even that such morality exists?? (Of course, what I wrote does not * contradict * the existence of divine morality , it is simply a sublime morality and not accessible to us in any way , and therefore any discussion of it is meaningless , at least in my understanding .)
Another question arises here : if the Chazal are the authority , and they can undermine the Torah , does God have a place in this equation ? Are we servants of God or servants of the Chazal ?
After all, even the rules that limit Hazal ( ostensibly ) were created by Hazal themselves. And there is controversy about them too ( although I am not knowledgeable about the subject, but that is how it seems). )


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מיכי Staff answered 8 months ago
I don’t know what you listened to during my classes, but you didn’t hear that from me. In my opinion, morality is indeed not relative, but there is no divine morality and no divine morality, Jewish morality and no Jewish morality, and it certainly isn’t learned from the Torah. See column 541 and much more here on the site.

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