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Avi K
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Thinking, Rav Kook says that derech eretz kadma laTorah means that there is a natural morality on which the Torah is based and, in the case of Am Yisrael adds (e.g. it is not inherently immoral to eat non-kosher food – thus it is permitted to non-Jews). This, in fact, is the definition of chukkim.