Q&A: A Morally Upright Person
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A Morally Upright Person
Question
Can a Jew who is not a “captured infant” be moral but not righteous? Or righteous but not moral?
Is a righteous person necessarily a moral person, or vice versa?
Answer
This is a question you should direct to a dictionary.
Discussion on Answer
Every word certainly signifies something. Please define for me what you call “righteous” and what you call a “moral person,” and then phrase the question about the relationship between them. I assume that once you define the concepts, you’ll discover that the question has disappeared.
But don’t the words signify something different if there is a separation between Torah and morality?