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Q&A: From Deism to Theism

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From Deism to Theism

Question

Hello Rabbi, I read the fifth booklet, and I didn’t really understand why it isn’t correct to say that morality is not an aspiration but a tool. I’d be glad if the Rabbi could elaborate.

Answer

Hello Moshe,
Sorry I didn’t respond earlier; the question slipped my mind (thanks to Oren the editor for drawing my attention to it).
I didn’t understand your question. I assume you mean what I said, that morality is not an end but a tool. As I understand it, morality is meant to create a better society and to make people’s situation better. It’s hard for me to understand why one would create people if the goal is that their situation should be better. Just don’t create them, and then there won’t be a problem that needs solving. Therefore, morality does not seem to me to be a reasonable candidate for the purpose of the world’s creation. It is a means for creating a better society, but that society itself was created for something else. Morality is a means that makes it possible to reach that something.

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