[Avodah] is there morality outside of the Torah

[Hankman]

RET wrote:

The Mechilta quotes R Issi ben Akiba that if killing a nonJew was
prohibited before Sinai then certainly Sinai can not permit something
that was forbidden. Again assumes there are basics which the Torah
could not permit and we know it is basic since it was prohibited
befroe the Torah was given.

CM responds:

You fail to note the conclusion of that Mechilta:  "bemes amru, patur midinai basar vedam, udino masur lashomayim."

Even Issi ben Akiba doesn't prove your point as this was not self taught from man's sense of morality (though perhaps it could have been found that way), but GIVEN to man as the commands of the sheva mitzvoz benai Noach.

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster



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