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Au commencement était la pratique In the Beginning was the Practice. The Commandments as a Spiritual Exercise – the Subjectivation of the Rabbinic PracticeDOI: 10.4000/yod.669 Keywords: submission , authority of God , commitment , Commandments – practice , Leibowitz Yeshayahou (1903-1994) , rabbinic Judaism , deed and truth , rabbinic subjectivation , moral law , christian subjectivation , reason , good and evil , Torah , Talmud , midrash , commandments of God , soumission , autorité de Dieu , commandements – pratique , Leibowitz Yeshayahou (1903-1994) , juda sme rabbinique , action et vérité , subjectivation rabbinique , loi morale , subjectivation chrétienne , raison , bien et mal , Tora Abstract: 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?
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