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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. " ...