In this brief book, Moshe Halbertal analyzes the concepts of religious and secular sacrifice. For religious sacrifice, he examines Hebrew sources and distinguishes between sacrificing "to" a god as a gift versus secular sacrifice done "for" a cause. In the second half, he explores how the notion of sacrificing for a cause can generate consequences if taken to an extreme, such as justifying terrible acts. Overall, the book provides insights into sacrifice in religious and secular contexts while also highlighting the complexities and potential dangers in their application.
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to life and death was framed by the classical theoreticians, it was in a considerably
diminished form. It was no longer considered that this power of the sovereign over his
subjects could be exercised in an absolute and unconditional way, but only in cases where
the sovereign’s very existence was in jeopardy: a sort of right of rejoinder. If he were
threatened by external enemies who sought to overthrow him or contest his rights, he could
then legitimately’ wage war, and require his subjects to take part in the defense of the state;
without “directly proposing their death,” he was empowered to “expose their life”: in this
sense, he wielded an “indirect’’ power over them of life and death. But if someone dared to
rise up against him and transgress his laws, then he could exercise a direct power over the
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Moshe Halbertal
On Sacrifice.
Princeton: Princeton University Press 2012.
ix +134 pages
$24.95 (cloth ISBN 978–0–691–15285–1)
In this brief and clearly written book, Moshe Halbertal, a leading Israeli scholar of Jewish
thought and philosophy, analyzes the concept of “sacrifice” as it is understood first in religious
and later in secular contexts. A half of the book is devoted to each discussion.
Halbertal’s account of religious sacrifice is largely based on what might be called a
conceptual analysis of Hebrew terms drawn from classical Jewish sources, both biblical and
rabbinic. The methodology of this section may surprise some of his more academically-minded
readers. Halbertal pays little attention to the results of biblical criticism, and he must surely set
the teeth of Talmudic philologists on edge by neglecting to discuss the provenance of his
rabbinic sources. The historical background of his account is highly schematic, marking off eras
relative to three great developments: the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, the rise
of Christianity, and the invention of secular nationalism. One might say that Halbertal
approaches his Jewish texts with the eyes of a native reader; there is almost nothing in the book
to make a Modern Orthodox rabbi turn up his nose. Readers completely unfamiliar with the
genre of midrash may benefit from spending a few minutes researching it on the Internet before
starting to read the book.
Halbertal distinguishes between the religious notion of “sacrificing to” and the generally
secular notion of “sacrificing for”. The item sacrificed to a god is a kind of gift, that is, it is
freely given to the god while the god is not legally required to reciprocate. Furthermore, it is a
gift which the god (being a god) does not at all really need, and as such it is easily rejected.
Consequently, the offering of sacrifices is constantly accompanied by fears of their rejection; the
availability of ritual rules to guide one’s sacrificial practices helps alleviate these anxieties.
Halbertal examines Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his chosen son Isaac, whose continued
existence was vital for the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham. This story exemplifies the
idea that sacrifice should not be offered for the sake of divine reciprocation (if Isaac dies,
reciprocation becomes impossible) but rather as an act expressing one’s connection with the
divine. While humans often give each other gifts with the expectation of eventually gaining
some benefit in return, sacrifice to God should transcend such considerations. The story ends
when Abraham sacrifices a ram in his son’s stead. Halbertal concludes from this that “the
sacrifice that as a gift seems to be part of an exchange cycle [i.e., the sacrifice of a mere ram] is
actually a symbol for a gift that cannot be reciprocated [i.e., Isaac]” (25, italics in original).
Mention of Abraham’s sacrificial ram leads into a more general discussion of how
sacrifices can serve as symbolic substitutes for human beings by taking on their sins and by
suffering their punishments. The logic of substitution requires that the sacrificial victim be
innocent; otherwise, it would die for its own sins. This presumption of the sacrificial victim’s
innocence points towards the historically late use of the term “victim” to refer to innocents who
have suffered from crime and injustice. Christianity could view Jesus as a victim in both senses.
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Furthermore, when God himself offered Jesus as a sacrifice, there was no danger of the deity’s
rejecting his own offering, making ritual precautions unnecessary. Thus, for Christianity, the
logic of sacrifice and its attending rituals was overthrown when the actual Son was killed instead
of a symbolic animal substitute.
The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem brought the end of Jewish sacrificial rites,
forcing the rabbis to seek substitutes, such as charity, prayer and a penitential attitude towards
suffering. Alms-giving is of particular interest because, so to speak, it turns the tables on God.
God cannot reject charity because, in effect, charity helps pay off God’s own personal debt to the
poor whom he is supposed to sustain.
The move from “sacrificing to” to “sacrificing for” was originally rooted in religious
martyrdom. Martyrs do not give up their lives as gifts to God; rather they die for the sake of
their religious faith. Transferred to a secular context, people who have suffered or lost their lives
in the service of a nation or political cause can be said to have made sacrifices for that nation or
cause.
In the second part of his book, which will likely be of interest to a broader audience than
the first, Halbertal explores the notion of “sacrificing for” and the possible dangers involved in
its application. He begins by pointing out that “self-transcendence is at the core of the human
capacity for a moral life” (63), and, of course, self-sacrifice is a form of self-transcendence. In
fact, the degrees of personal sacrifice demanded by various moral obligations can be used to rank
their relative importance.
Halbertal claims that despite all its transcendent glory, adoption of the notion of
“sacrifice for” can generate especially terrible consequences: “misguided self-transcendence is
morally more problematic and lethal than a disproportionate attachment to self-interest” (78,
italics in original). How does this work? First of all, people may think that “since it is the mark
of the good that it deserves sacrifice, the reverse must be true too – namely, that sacrifice makes
something into a good” (69). Now martyrdom can be motivated by the urge to prove the nobility
of one’s cause. Worse yet, willingness to kill others for one’s cause may also be taken as a token
of its righteousness; perpetrators of terrible acts of cruelty can come to see themselves as the true
martyrs who sacrifice their very humanity for the sake of the cause, or they may hold the
psychological burden of their guilt to outweigh the suffering of their victims. Similarly, as in the
case of Kierkegaard’s interpretation of Abraham, morality itself may be sacrificed for the sake of
some greater value. Halbertal soberly comments that “when morality is depicted as a temptation
to be surmounted in the name of a higher good, it is always someone else who pays the price”
(74).
Analysis of self-sacrifice leads Halbertal into a discussion of the ethics of war. He argues
against the symmetrical rights of soldiers in any conflict to kill each other, instead insisting that
the soldiers of the offending army in an unjust war are obligated to surrender or withdraw from
the field of battle rather than protect themselves with force. However, Halbertal complicates the
application of his simple rule by pointing out the “associational obligations” born by soldiers
towards their comrades in arms, as well as “the normative expectation that citizens voluntarily
abide by the decisions of a democratically elected government, even if they deeply disagree”
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(87). Such solidarity is important for the continued viability of “a shared political life as such”.
Next, Halbertal considers what could be called a further species of social solidarity,
namely, solidarity with those who have made sacrifices in the past. Past sacrifices gain their full
significance through future action; the sacrifices made to obtain a great military victory may
become retroactively pointless if later generations squander the fruits of that victory.
Problematically, the intuition that self-sacrifice for the sake of some project indicates its moral
worth may lead us to make additional sacrifices for the sake of causes which were wrong-headed
from the start. It would be convenient to say that only just causes deserve sacrifices, regardless
of past history. Again, however, Halbertal complicates the situation by citing our obligations
towards traditions and existing forms of life which are “neither just nor unjust” (101), such as
religious traditions. Such obligations stem from one’s personal relation to a certain group, rather
than to humanity in general; “It is not an obligation to humans qua humans; it is a manifestation
of a more complex relationship”. Such particularistic obligations can also demand a degree of
self-sacrifice.
The second part of Halbertal’s book concludes with a discussion of “The State and the
Sacrificial Stage”. Here, Halbertal reminds us that while Hobbes and Locke, for whom a
citizen’s membership in the social contract is motivated by her own self-interest, find it difficult
to account for her duty to go to war for the state, Rousseau, for whom citizenship is a
transformative relationship in which the citizen achieves self-transcendence through
identification with the general will, has no difficulty explaining why a citizen should be prepared
to risk her life in military service of the state. Halbertal appreciates the psychological richness of
Rousseau’s account, but he also worries that it may lead to chauvinistic and idolatrous
ideologies. Fortunately, Kant saved Rousseau’s insights by working them out in terms of an
ideal and universal kingdom of ends, rather than an actual and limited historical political
community.
I can only hope that this highly schematic overview conveys something of the richness of
ideas which Moshe Halbertal has elegantly packed into his short book.
Berel Dov Lerner
Western Galilee College