Hegel consciously built om previous philosophers. He took the good and disregarded what he considered to be mistakes. And that is what I try to do.

I am not saying everything in the Talmud is all right. I am looking for objective morality.

 

You might find things in the Talmud or even in the Old Testament that are you might object to. If possible I try to reconcile these things to reason. But if that is not possible. I disregard them. 

However morality based only on Reason I also find to be problematic. There are those who think Marxism is the most rational of all moral and political systems.  And if we would go by pure logic, they might be right. But when I was growing up it was considered an axiom that in Physics or any subject, if one's theory is perfectly logical, but the results of experiment show it to be wrong, then it is wrong. And Communism is a good example of that. The millions of those murdered under Stalin and Mao show that somewhere the logic of Communism went haywire.

So that might not show any system to be perfect. But it is best to start with the Medieval Approach of Faith with Reason. [And just to add a little substance to my claim here I would like to mention the modified Kantian approach of Leonard Nelson the founder of the second Friesian School where you have this idea of immediate non intuitive knowledge- i.e., knowledge not based on reason nor on sense perception. This mainly refers to the categories  of Kant but can also be understood as faith.]

 Even though learning fast is clearly indicated in the Conversations of Rav Nahman שיחות הר''ן סימן ע''ו I noticed today the LeM I:74 ליקוטי מוהר''ן חלק א פרק ע''ד where learning with understanding is emphasized. This indicates the sort of compromise that you have in the Litvak world of half the day spent on learning in depth and the second half to be spent on fast learning.

 I do not really hold that marriage is a very good thing anymore. Nor do i see it to be in accord or contrary to holiness. Even though the Rambam held the idea of  concubine פילגש was only for kings, most rishonim disagree. 

And if you want to see this in the Old Testament itself, see Chronicles chapter 2 verse 46 concerning Caleb ben Yefuna. And  Caleb ben Yefuna was not a king, and yet had a few concubines. [And he was righteous as it says in the Book of  Numbers after he returned with Joshua--he went totally with God. וימלא אחרי השם ] So have girl friends and even having children with them does not reduce ones righteousness

Marriage nowadays is like being in an airplane that is losing power, and you are handed a parachute. The flight attendant that hands you the chute tells you that it has a 50/50 percent chance of opening.  

 It has been suggested that Clarence Thomas is the life blood and soul of the Supreme Court. After all no one can imagine Roberts to have the kind of influence that Thomas has. And that means the laws that were supposedly protected by the 14th ammendment will be held under scrutiny. [I.e. homosexual "marriage"? is next on the list of things to e noted that are not mentioned in the 14th ammendment.]

 I did not make it my business, but over the years I became aware of  some of the issues revolving around the Shatz. My conclusions were that most of the major doctrines of the Shatz got accepted into the religious world. So you might have noted that I think the religious world is not based on Torah except for show. The real source is the Shaz. But to go into this subject seems to me to be a waste of time and quite distasteful. But it came up while I was today in Breslov, so I thought to mention it here in case anyone needs some direction if they want to do research into this subject.

 There issue of Christianity I thought was in Avoda Zara but today I was at the near by Na Nach Breslov place and saw a book by the son of Rav Odaviah Yoseph [about using medicine on Shabat]]and hebrought up the fact that Muslims are not idol worshipers and the mentioned that famous Tosphot about Christianity and "Shituf" {joining}.  He brings in from Sanhedrin page 63 and the Rema {Moshe Iserles} in the Shulchan Aruch in Orach Haim chapter 156.

{I did not look these up but I guess I was wrong about the location of that Tosphot.}