In particular, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Chassidic movement, conceived that bodily acts immediately elevate or lower the soul's heavenly position. Heavenly cosmology is an elaborately developed mystical topic which the uninitiated may regard with disdain and a sense of moral superiority. Let us bear in mind, however, that some of the finest minds of the ages were occupied with these ideas. It just might be that obtuseness born of our cultural limitations closes this world to us. Let us endeavor to approach these ideas which, if true, have tremendous significance, with an open mind.
Most people have an ethical sense.
On a low spiritual level, we may ask what renders an act morally laudable or reprehensible. Strictly, unless one accepts there being an explicit, absolute Divine law, there seems to be no real standard. Logically, there can be no true ideals unless God renders them absolute. Ethics, otherwise, reduce to personal preferences. For instance, some people morally disapprove of murder while others do not.