[Avodah] ethic outside of halacha
Eli Turkel
eliturkel at gmail.com
Sun Jun 6 12:45:51 PDT 2010
<<False premise: that all of Torah is in SA. Or, more precisely, that
everything Torah disapproves of it forbids, and therefore whatever it
permits it says nothing about.>>
As I pointed out at the beginning the majority of the article of RAL discuss
"lifnim meshurat hadin" and the poisitions of Rambam and Ramban.
Thje article is over 20 pages long and of necessity I have been unfair to RAL
with selective quotes.
Let me conclude with the final paragraph of the article
"I dealing with this subject I have in effect addressed myself
both to those who miscopying the breadth of its horizons find the halakhic
ethic inadequate and to those who snugly regard the narrower confines
as sufficient. In doing so I hope I have presented my thinking clearly.
But for those who prefer definitive answers let me conclude by saying:
Does the tradition recognize an ethic independent of Halakhah?
You defines your terms and you take your choice"
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Eli Turkel
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