GEN535 Those moderns who deny Buber’s “accountability to the Eternal Thou” or who refuse to acknowledge a transcendent source of “the good” must still grope for the ultimate foundation of their value system.  Why, for example, is it wrong to demean, degrade, or exploit another person?  Should man’s increasing dominion over the earth make it technically possible to breed a race of docile imbeciles—why would it be wrong to do so? To answer this question in its ontological depth, is to imply that there is an order of creation which man should not violate.  At the heart of this order is “the sacredness of the human personality” or what ben Azzai called the most important sentence in the Torah: “This is the Book of the generations of man. In the image of God created He him.”  [this verse].  To explore the foundations of ethics is to point toward if not explicitly to affirm the God who is the “Giver of Torah.”  FOJE xxiv-v