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HaKatan
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“Hakatan. _reality_ determines morality as it is the fabric of creation. Whether God looked into the Torah and created the world doesn’t contradict that morality is still the fabric of reality. The Torah and reality are a complement of the other not a contradiction”

No. Not in Judaism, anyways.
G-d created the world based on what the Torah requires. In other words, the relevant portions of the Torah are the “blueprint” of creation.
But that obviously doesn’t mean that the world (or “reality”, as you put it) therefore contains everything in the Torah. Therefore, it also does not mean that Torah and reality are a complement of each other. Reality is a reflection of the relevant portions of the Torah.

Morality, like all else, is derived from the Torah, not from the world.