%0 Journal Article %T Au commencement ¨¦tait la pratique In the Beginning was the Practice. The Commandments as a Spiritual Exercise ¨C the Subjectivation of the Rabbinic Practice %A Ron Naiweld %J Yod : Revue des ¨¦tudes H¨¦bra£¿ques et Juives %D 2011 %I INALCO %R 10.4000/yod.669 %X One of the main characteristics of rabbinic ethics is that it does not presuppose that a perfect knowledge of the truth is necessary to the practice of good. In this it differs from other ethical discourses, Christian or philosophical, of the Greco-Roman world. By studying this particularity of the rabbinical ethics, the present article tries to answer the following question: If knowledge of the ¡°truth¡± does not lead to the practice of the ¡°good¡±, how does rabbinic discourse articulates a motivation of the application of the law on an individual level? %K submission %K authority of God %K commitment %K Commandments ¨C practice %K Leibowitz Yeshayahou (1903-1994) %K rabbinic Judaism %K deed and truth %K rabbinic subjectivation %K moral law %K christian subjectivation %K reason %K good and evil %K Torah %K Talmud %K midrash %K commandments of God %K soumission %K autorit¨¦ de Dieu %K commandements ¨C pratique %K Leibowitz Yeshayahou (1903-1994) %K juda sme rabbinique %K action et v¨¦rit¨¦ %K subjectivation rabbinique %K loi morale %K subjectivation chr¨¦tienne %K raison %K bien et mal %K Tora %U http://yod.revues.org/669