NUM382 [Biblical ethics conveniently fall into three categories. These are: the Ethics of Love, the Ethics of Justice and the Ethics of universal humanitarianism.] … No division ultimately exists between the ethics of Love and those of Justice -- the second of our three groups. They are both correlated, being based on the Brotherhood of Man, itself a corollary of the Fatherhood of God. The distinction between them is slight, though subtle. Whereas the ethics of Love deal expressly with acts of kindness, the ethics of Justice concern themselves with acts of human rights. The ethics of Love express the loftiness in man's nature; the ethics of Justice aim at protecting the rights of others. Justice is a prerequisite to love. When man's feelings go unchecked, his nobility and generosity have a clear road to self-expression. The purpose of justice is to curb wronGodoing. That is why many of the commands in the Torah are couched in the negative form. What man should do is the province of the first group of ethics. Within the domains of Justice it is to warn man what not to do that he may be innocent in the eyes of God and man [this verse]. Since God "judges the world with righteousness" and has "established the foundations of the earth on justice", [Ps. xcvi. 13), man, in his pursuit of holiness and perfection, must do likewise.