Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 9:4 delivers one of the oldest and most surprising laws in Torah. Flesh which is torn of the living beast, what time the life is in it, or that torn from a slaughtered animal before all the breath has gone forth, you shall not eat.
The Aramaic spells out what the Hebrew compresses. You may not tear a leg off an animal while it is still breathing. You may not rip meat from a beast whose last breath has not yet left its body. This is eiver min ha-chai, the prohibition against the limb of a living creature, and Jewish tradition counts it among the sheva mitzvot b'nai Noach, the seven Noahide commandments given to all humanity.
Notice how soon this law appears. Noah has just walked off the ark. The Holy One has just granted humanity permission to eat meat for the first time. And before the permission is even fully spoken, a limit is drawn. You may eat, but you may not be cruel.
This is how Jewish ethics enters the world. Not as a ban on appetites, but as a boundary on how appetites are satisfied. The takeaway: the moment a power is granted to you, listen for the limit that comes with it. In Torah, every gift arrives with a fence beside it, and the fence is the gift's protection.