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Chasidut zu Wajikra 18:4

אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י תַּעֲשׂ֛וּ וְאֶת־חֻקֹּתַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃

Meine Vorschriften befolget und meine Satzungen wahret, nach ihnen zu wandeln. Ich bin der Herr, euer Gott.

Kedushat Levi

Leviticus 18,4. “you shall observe My social laws and ‎My statutes you shall guard carefully;” the “statutes” are ‎the commandments in the Torah concerning which the Torah did ‎not reveal why the Creator has commanded that we observe ‎them, neither do they commend themselves to our intellect. We ‎must remember that the true test of a Jew’s belief in G’d is if and ‎how he observes these statutes. If he keeps these statutes ‎meticulously he thereby refines his character. If one chooses to ‎perform only those commandments for which the Torah has ‎either provided a rationale, or concerning which we think that ‎we understand what G’d had in mind when He decreed them, one ‎demonstrates thereby that he does not have any intellect at all, ‎i.e. he will not even understand the true reason behind ‎commandments that he has chosen to observe. This is the true ‎meaning of the line: ‎את חקותי תשמרו‎. The Torah promises that if ‎we observe the statutes without knowing their reason our reward ‎will be that we will truly understand the ‎משפטים‎, the rules that ‎appear first and foremost to address themselves to the relations ‎between man and his fellow man. When the Torah wrote (18,5) ‎אשר יעשה אתם האדם וחי בהם‎, “which man is to perform in order ‎that he may live through them,” it alludes to this effect of ‎performing those commandments that we cannot understand..‎
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