Why does the rabbi attach so much importance to halacha?
Peace and blessings
If I may ask why the rabbi attaches so much weight to halacha?
That is, not in the actual attitude towards it and how much we are subject to it, but in the actual study of it,
For scholars and scholars are generally less inclined to focus on it, and I see that the rabbi, despite his study and in-depth study of the Gemara, attributes very great importance to it,
So much so that the title of one of the rabbi’s interviews (originally) is a quote “There is nothing in Judaism except Halacha.”
Why does the rabbi attribute such great importance to it in relation to other areas such as Kabbalah, for example?
I explained in detail in the second book of the trilogy. When I say Halacha, I mean the study of Halacha and Halacha research as well as practice. It is separate from the study of other things that are marginal, if at all. I am not sure how much Kabbalah is Torah at all (what is the name given from Sinai? There are clear similarities to other mysticisms). Morality and thought are human inventions of the thinkers themselves (some of them are also found among Gentiles). Only in Halacha is there a tradition from Sinai (which, of course, developed and interpreted) and only it is specific to Jews, and about which we can say that this is the Torah we received.
Thank you very much, Rabbi.
Regarding Midot, some write that Tractate Avot was also given to Moses at Sinai (Ra'B at the beginning of Avot, and more), according to this, although it is not specific to us because the sages of the Gentiles also wrote books on ethics and the like, but it is Torah.
It is really unlikely that Avot was given at Sinai. I understand that the intention is to see it as if it was given there. Like the Mimra that everything that a veteran student is going to learn was shown to Moses by God at Sinai, where too the intention is not historical-factual but normative.
In any case, Tractate Avot is recommendations on good qualities and there is nothing uniquely Jewish there. Similar things can be found in other sources, including gentiles. I will accept what is reasonable and logical and what is not, whether from Avot or from gentiles.
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