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One nation rejected the aboli-
This week's sidra recounts the
central event of all of Jewish tion of theft. "Do not the spoils
history — the Sinaitic Covenant belong to the victor?" they
asked.
between God and Israel. It is in-
Another nation rejected the
teresting and instructive to note
that when God gave the Ten abolition of adultery. "We can
Commandments to our ancestors not be bound to such a rigid
he presented them on two tab- code that places arbitrary re-
lets. In so doing, He revealed to straints upon human freedom
man the dual concerns which and pleasure," they reasoned.
(Shades of the "New Morality?")
comprise Jewish Law and tradi-
When God came to the Jewish
tion.
people their reaction 'was very
The first tablets contain the
different. They did not ask the
mitzvot bain adam lamakom, the
regulating contents of the Torah, they sim-
commandments
man's relationship to God. The ply accepted it. Na'aseh — we
second contain the mitzvot bain will do. Venishma — and then
we will try to understand. We
adam lechavero, the command-
ments which govern man's rela- will not rationalize with a di-
tionship to-his fellow man. The
fifth commandment, "Honor thy
father and thy mother," is the
bridge between the two groups Shabbat Yitro:
according to many Biblical
Exodus 18:1-20:23.
commentaries.
Judaism makes no distinction Isaiah 6:1-7:6,
between these two categories.
They both come under the rules 9:5-6.
of our faith, of our Torah and of
our religious codes of law.
Neither can exist independently.
vine code. We will not analyze
Our sages point out that the
word "tablets" in the Torah — God's law from a subjective view
of ethics. We will first accept it
luhot — is spelled chaser (with-
out the you) and can thus be and live in accordance with it.
pronounced luhat, which is sin- Then we will draw the proper
gular. The implication is that conclusions from it. Ethics, up-
both tablets and both categories rooted from their religious
must be united into one. Luhat source, are not binding and, in
many cases, can easily be
ketiv — there are two tablets —
religion and ethics. In the life of rationalized away. To the Jew,
the religious man, these two ethics are binding and absolute
because they are part and parcel
must become one.
It is clear that religion can of religious law.
Religion in the Jewish Wel-
not exist without ethics. The os-
tensibly religious man who is tanshauung is when luhot be-
comes luhat, when the two tab-
unethical or immoral in society
lets are joined together into one,
is a perversion and a distortion
when both categories — our re-
of the very core of Jewish life
and thought. But what about lationship to God and our
dealings with our fellow man —
the reverse? Indeed, there are
go hand in hand. In theory and
many good people who are not
in practice, in thought and deed,
religious or whose religion has
religion and ethics must find fu-
been confined to the second tab-
sion and integration upon the
lets, to the ethical realm exclu-
tablets of God's law and within
sively. There are people who
the heart and soul of man.
split the unified tablets of Sinai.
They will take the verse, "Love
thy neighbor as thyself: I am
the Lord," and they will dissect
it, accepting the first half and
discarding the second.
We must admit that while Bomb Explodes
some may succeed in this effort
of atheistic ethics, it can never In Jerusalem
serve as the basis of our tradi- Restaurant
tion and religion as Jews. Pro-
per morals and ethics, the nob-
Jerusalem (JTA) — A bomb
lest human conduct must be
based upon its ultimate source, exploded in a Jerusalem resta-
namely, God, if it is to be effec- urant last Sunday and another
went off in downtown Haifa the
tive and lasting.
An ethical system based on same day'. Neither caused casu-
the subjective whims of man can alties but damage to the
be easily distorted. Subjectively, restaurant was considerable.
almost anything could be de- . Police detained 20 Arabs here
clared ethical.
for questioning.
Our sages tell us that before
The restaurant is on King
God revealed the Torah to the George Street. The bomb ex-
Jewish people he tried to "sell
ploded in the, lavatory. Police
it to a number of other nations. said it was a relatively small
Each asked Him the contents, device. The Haifa blast occurred
evaluated the legislation, and in Paris Square where many
rejected the offer. Do you think Arab, day laborers from the
these people considered them- West Bank gather each morning
selves to be unethical? Not at to seek job's in the Haifa area.
all; they merely had their own
Police detained several suspects.
subjective vieV, of ethics.
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