Q&A: Defining Morality and Its Relation to the Torah
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Defining Morality and Its Relation to the Torah
Question
I saw that you wrote: that there are commandments in the Torah that are not moral.
As I understand it, the definition of morality is: what is right to do or not to do.
If so, if God states what He wants us to do or not do, then clearly that is moral, because He determines what is right and what is not right.
Answer
If you define morality that way, then you are right. But that is just a semantic question. Why is that interesting?
Because one can connect more deeply to the Torah’s commandments if we understand that they are moral, and connection leads to observance.