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Oral Torah

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asked 8 months ago

Paid!!
Does the rabbi have a column that talks about defining the Oral Torah?
I heard in Rabbi Moshe Rabbeinu’s class that he didn’t even know what the 19 Avot Melacha was. I would love to understand what the Rabbi meant. Did Moshe Rabbeinu inquire and write on Shabbat but not chop wood?
How much of what is in the Gemara is from the Amoraim and how much was actually given at Sinai? It is possible that even totefot were not the tefillin we are familiar with at the time of Moses or the First Temple, for example? Why was the written Torah given without interpretation and how did it get along for thousands of years without an agreed interpretation and everyone had their own personal interpretation and suddenly the Gemara wrote all the explanations
 
After all, our argument against the Karaites is always that how can one keep the Torah without an accompanying commentary to the book, and now I discover that for us too, these things were not truly received along with the Torah and created over the course of generations?
What did they observe when Moses our Lord descended from Sinai?


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מיכי Staff answered 8 months ago
I have a series on dynamic tradition (column 622 onwards). You should read there. The tradition that accompanies the Torah is a framework of thought and not details, and therefore the interpretations and details can change and be created over the generations. The vast majority of what we have was created after the giving of the Torah. By the way, the Karaites actually cling to what they consider authentic (which was in the original), and the argument against them is due to dynamism. The opposite of what you said. It’s like the Shiites against the Sunnis in Islam and the Catholics against the Protestants in Christianity. (The Sunnis and Protestants are roughly like the Karaites).

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כלב בן יפונה replied 8 months ago

Miki,
Are you claiming that Rabbinic Judaism = you = Catholic?

מיכי Staff replied 8 months ago

Didn't you read what I'm saying? Do you want me to write again?

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