Why am I obligated to the covenant my ancestors made at Sinai?
To Rabbi Shalom,
Why am I obligated to the covenant my ancestors made at Sinai if I was not present there? It is clear that "the soul was present" is just a midrash.
If you say it's because I'm part of a people, then why can't I choose to stop being Jewish, and choose to be American, according to Halacha?
A cell that falls out of the body is no longer part of the body, a plank that comes off the ship of Theseus is no longer part of it, why will a Jew always be a Jew?
thanks!
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For the same reason that you are bound by the law that others have enacted. If you are part of the public, you are bound by everything that the public to which you belong has established. To choose to leave the public in a halakhic context (as opposed to a state and civil context) is to break a contract. The contract was between us and God, and it cannot be broken in the middle. Just as those who hold the social contract approach would not say that a person can cancel his signature on the contract.
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