Dear Mor,



What we said is that Halacha does not have to be relevant for you. Halacha was ruled by men of religion whose considerations were not humanistic, but religious.

To control the believing public they made up punishments and used scare tactics.

Your considerations have to be moral and values-based, with no influence from religion, without fear of Divine punishment. As to your question of who we are, see Our Goals on the site.

It does not need concern you who gives the answer or the suggestion. You must consider only the content of the answer and not who gives it.

The philosopher Kant wrote that Man’s maturation depends on his daring to think for himself.



Sincerely,



Daat Emet

Dear Mor,



What we said is that Halacha does not have to be relevant for you. Halacha was ruled by men of religion whose considerations were not humanistic, but religious.

To control the believing public they made up punishments and used scare tactics.

Your considerations have to be moral and values-based, with no influence from religion, without fear of Divine punishment. As to your question of who we are, see Our Goals on the site.

It does not need concern you who gives the answer or the suggestion. You must consider only the content of the answer and not who gives it.

The philosopher Kant wrote that Man’s maturation depends on his daring to think for himself.



Sincerely,



Daat Emet

Dear Mor,



What we said is that Halacha does not have to be relevant for you. Halacha was ruled by men of religion whose considerations were not humanistic, but religious.

To control the believing public they made up punishments and used scare tactics.

Your considerations have to be moral and values-based, with no influence from religion, without fear of Divine punishment. As to your question of who we are, see Our Goals on the site.

It does not need concern you who gives the answer or the suggestion. You must consider only the content of the answer and not who gives it.

The philosopher Kant wrote that Man’s maturation depends on his daring to think for himself.



Sincerely,



Daat Emet

Dear Mor,



Your human problem is heart-rending and demands clarification of the specific circumstances.

But you must know and internalize, as a man who wishes to be moral, that all religious considerations and scares are not relevant to a humanistic person, one for whom the value of Man is supreme.

Theologians do not hesitate to make up, as they wish, prohibitions and punishments in the name of G-d as long as the majority of the nation accepts their opinion. There is nothing more simple than taking advantage of the “fear” which the majority of the nation feels and to speak in the name of G-d. The religious leadership scares the believing public with punishments and torments, not because this is the way things truly are, but so the public will be afraid and listen to their instructions. To support our words we will bring the words of Ibn Ezra on the nonsense scare tactics of the rabbis: “The early ones said these things to scare people, so they would fear the Lord, blessed be He” (Turei Zahav, Yoreh Deah, 116:5[4]).

To further clarify we will bring a religious, that is, non-moral, ruling, brought in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 75a): “There was once an incident of one who desired an available girl to the extent that the doctors declared he would die if he did not have her. The Sages ruled that he was forbidden to even talk to her from behind a fence, with the reason that the girls of Israel should not be made out to be licentious. So you see that rabbis ruled that a person’s life is of less value in their eyes than religious goals, and they instructed that it is better he should die and the modesty of Jewish girls be preserved. See also the answer G-d is as putty in the hands of the Sages and as an axe in the hands of the rabbis.



I hope I have helped you to at least remove the outside influences of fear of punishment and to look at the specific circumstances without fear.



Sincerely,



Daat Emet