Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxi!megann From: megann@ihuxi.UUCP (Mcroberts) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: A query to "Dvar Torah" Message-ID: <1279@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 19:16:54 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1279 Posted: Wed Nov 6 19:16:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 21:39:50 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 13 > Many of us take secular law seriously, whether we agree with it or not, > because there are policemen and sheriffs waiting behind the billboards > to run us in if we don't. I thought the Rabbis took a dim view of choosing ones actions either with hope of reward or fear of punishment. . . This, of course, is a radically different view than that of civil law (although one hopes that most people have some sense of morality devoid of punishment and reward. . .) meg mcroberts ihnp4!ihuxi!megann