Reply To: Theological Conundrum (read at your own risk)

DaasYochid:

The Torah doesn’t call it “good” and “bad”; the Torah calls it “???” and “??”.

Zev:

Don’t use the word “care” if you don’t like it. Imagine that you are trying to convince someone to serve Hashem in this most lofty fashion. What would be your convincing argument?

Avram:

If I understand you correctly, you are essentially saying that Hashem obviously does things without the goal being benefit and since we are ???? Hashem, we can also do things for the same non-benefit reason Hashem does things for, even if we don’t know what it is. My response to that is that it might be true that there are reasons that transcend benefit, but you haven’t given a reason why someone should do something for such a reason.

Zev:

But why should someone pursue dveykus if not because it is a commandment?