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Morality and Torah

שו"תMorality and Torah
שאל לפני 6 שנים

A few questions about your approach to morality and halacha:
A) You accept the division of the types of commandments into 'laws', 'testimonies' and 'laws' – after all, according to you, everything is religious values. So even 'Thou shalt not murder', which is accepted as a law devoid of its intellectual flavor, is actually a legitimate religious value.
 
b) Why did the Torah command, "And do what is right and good"? The moral code itself demands that we do it (like every Gentile). Why should the Torah demand this?
 
C) If the commandments in the Tatra are religious values ​​(and not intellectual or moral), how can the reasons be interpreted in a rational interpretation. Like, for example, the Meiri in relation to the Gentiles, which places this in the norm. After all, the principle is religious and not moral?


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מיכי צוות ענה לפני 6 שנים
A. I don't completely accept it. There are commandments whose moral logic is clear, but whose religious dimension requires a verse. See my comment right now here: https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%d7%a1%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%90-%d7%94%d7%95%d7%90-%d7%9c%d7%9e%d7%94-%d7%9c%d7%99-%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%90 B. The Torah did not command it. No enumerator of commandments included this in their enumeration. On the contrary, the Torah here writes exactly this: that there is an expectation of us to act morally even though it is not part of the halakha. C. In the book, I explained the relationship between Halacha and morality in two ways. The Halacha command gives religious validity to the moral principle. The prohibition against murder stems from the value of life, but the value of life has a moral and a religious aspect. Therefore, the moral interpretation can certainly illuminate the Halacha boundary as well, even though there is no overlap. In general, I will just add (I have plans to write a column about this) that sometimes we also have understanding in areas that are not simple morality or logic, such as impurity and purity or sacred things. The fact is that even there we express opinions and choose between interpretive options.

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