Q&A: Emotion. A Value?
Emotion. A Value?
Question
Does the fact that the Torah commanded duties of the limbs, as Rabbeinu Bachya noted in his book (love of God, love of others, love of the convert, do not hate, fear, and the like), not prove that the Torah sees value in emotion?
Answer
I didn’t understand the claim. What appears in the parentheses are duties of the heart, not of the limbs. See my article on emotions in Jewish law: https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&cx=f18e4f052adde49eb&q=https://mikyab.net/%25D7%259B%25D7%25AA%25D7%2591%25D7%2599%25D7%259D/%25D7%259E%25D7%2590%25D7%259E%25D7%25A8%25D7%2599%25D7%259D/%25D7%259E%25D7%25A9%25D7%259E%25D7%25A2%25D7%2595%25D7%2595%25D7%25AA-%25D7%2590%25D7%25A4%25D7%259C%25D7%2598%25D7%2595%25D7%25A0%25D7%2599%25D7%25AA-%25D7%259C%25D7%25A8%25D7%2592%25D7%25A9%25D7%2595%25D7%25AA-%25D7%2591%25D7%2594%25D7%259C%25D7%259B%25D7%2594/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwj91p6HtuaCAxUKT6QEHb01BKoQFnoECAAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2btgZ7rYtxAl-Vj9ojID9c
Discussion on Answer
By the way, Duties of the Heart doesn’t add or detract anything here. The difficulty is with the facts in the Torah, the Talmud, and the halakhic decisors, not with a statement from some book of thought. In any case, I answered the question in the article mentioned above.
Thank you very much 🙏
Correction: duties of the heart **