Question

Hello Rabbi,
Regarding a clash between morality and religion, what do you think a person who is committed both to religion and to morality should do when there is a conflict between them?

• I think I once saw an approach of yours saying that one should use judgment and decide each case on its own merits (though I may not be stating that precisely).

  A clear example from which I think one might draw the conclusion that Jewish law defeats morality when they clash (at least among all religious Jews, and strangely the secular are like the religious on this too)

  Circumcision — on the face of it, an immoral and cruel act toward a tiny and weak creature. Is this proof that Jewish law is always above morality?
  And if not, then when is it not above morality? And why, in the case of circumcision, does Jewish law always win?

  Thank you; I hope I phrased the question appropriately.