Tefillin and philosophical outlook

Peace and blessings.. In my humble opinion, I do not think that the sages were wrong, but science is the one that is wrong.
The matter of “tradition” is problematic. Since it is possible to observe certain testimonies that they passed on mainly through tradition and this was forgotten a little from them and today, thanks to the restoration of Sephardic halakha, they are returning to the good.
Secondly, I mentioned that there are Ethiopians who were ruled in “Yibia Umar” that they are Jews. And Ethiopians do not put on tefillin because it is not part of their tradition and their tradition dates back to the days of the First Temple. Therefore, tradition is problematic. Especially when there are Karaites with a different tradition. And there are biblical scholars who claim that there were 4 sects, Essenes, Betoush and Sadducees in addition to the scribes-rabbis-Pharisees. And they simply became the majority through a political move by Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai and received sovereignty. The word tradition is very problematic because when there is no law or priests and prophets who bring the people back to the better, then tradition can become confused. I understand that this is an age-old debate on this subject... why, according to the Rambam, is it legally forbidden to require a reason for reading even when the reason is clearly written in the Torah? Is it possible to know where in the Gemara he learned this? And what is the Rambam's opinion on the subject?
By the way, I did not talk about animal cruelty because you can make tefillin from a dead animal. Or an animal that was slaughtered according to the law and does not feel anything during the slaughter. (The methods of raising animals are indeed animal cruelty, but that is not the issue here).
There is no connection to animal cruelty at all, but rather to the place of the animal's skin in our lives. Why should we use the skin of a dead animal? You will not see a monkey doing this... and he eats and drinks and lives, and is neither cold nor hot, and he does not need belts and shoes. And will you say that you are a human being and you are better? You depend on material things and he does not. Especially since the works of man's hands wear him out. And this is a fact that I see every day that the sages of the Gemara They were absolutely right when they said this. A car, despite being useful, kills people. An atomic bomb can destroy entire countries. Shoes destroy the health of the feet (knee, back, foot problems, poor blood circulation, etc.). It has been found that almost everything that man has invented in the world has come to his detriment.
Today's medicines are deadly, they don't help at all and they are chemical and pollute our water.
Fruits, vegetables and grains have undergone genetic modifications. They don't even smell anymore.
On the other hand, medicines used to be extracted directly from nature. And as it sounds, it came only to relax the digestive system that had gone wrong and this is also the beginning of alcoholic beverages that started as medicine.
But show me one thing that man has invented that 100% serves him without harming him.
While the Holy One, blessed be He, created a forest where everything there lives in perfect harmony and no one bothers anyone, there is a food chain. And man Can eat fruit (which is not harmful) and enjoy it and drink clean water and bless and he doesn't even have to worry about all kinds of worries that people worry about today.
It's not called the Tree of Knowledge for nothing.. Man constantly wants to know that he produces instead of living and believing that everything is managed for him. This is the first sin since time immemorial that we continue to commit and the fact that the punishment was that man came down from the Garden of Eden here (there are other interpretations but that simplifies things). Why not live in the Garden of Eden that God left for us here and get smart with it with all kinds of scientific methods? And make leather straps and say that only leather straps are tied when there is a completely different "tradition" that claims that tying and seeing are just a metaphor to understand how connected we need to be to the commandment of remembering the Exodus from Egypt where we were slaves (who want to do everything with their own hands) instead of enjoying the "in the desert." We preferred to return to being slaves than to eat the food of angels and wept for meat as well. And the onions and the tomatoes and the watermelons that were in Egypt. All the greatest sins of the people of Israel are related to this lack of faith and balance with God.
Man, in the test of results, only destroys in the meantime. (There are those who try to restore and restore nature and return it to its former state.) That is why He commanded us to remember the Exodus from Egypt so that we may understand that only God is in control here in the world and He knows what is best and we only need to open our hands and receive and enjoy the light of His presence. Sorry for straying into a slightly different topic but I hope you understood my point.

I've completely lost you. If you'd like to discuss, please formulate a question briefly and clearly and we'll discuss it.

On the 3rd of September, 7th of September

To Daniel, greetings,

Tefillin are not just a sign of the exodus from Egypt, but of the entire unbreakable bond between God and the people of Israel. Like the wife in the Song of Songs who asks her mother, “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for as strong as love is.”

In this way, we tie a seal upon our arm, opposite our heart, that reminds us daily of the unbreakable bond between the people of Israel and their Creator.

One of the purposes of tefillin is to internalize the Torah of the Lord, as it is written: “That the Torah of the Lord may be in your mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.” In contrast to the colorful and exciting pagan worship, the Torah of God places the head, clear thinking, and values that distinguish sharply and clearly between good and evil, black on white, at the head.

Every person in the camp of Israel in the wilderness saw the black cube. This is how the tabernacle, covered entirely with goatskin sheets, looked from the outside. All the splendor of the blue and purple gold was hidden inside and visible only to the priest who came to serve. Simplicity radiated outward. And so we turn our heads and arms into a tabernacle for the name of God, which is called upon us, shining with inner splendor.

With blessings, S.C. Levinger

According to Yehuda Bello (in the post ‘How the Women of the Bible Painted Their Eyelids’, on the blog ‘Notes from the White Ark’) Egypt was called chem, ‘the black’, in the ancient world, after the fertile black alluvial soil that the Nile brought to Egypt.

Perhaps it should be said that the black color of the tefillin symbolized the fertility of the land, which for the Egyptians came from the Nile, and for us it comes from faith in Him and the doing of His commandments, by virtue of which our days will be prolonged on the good land that G‑d has given us, and in which we will produce choice fruits in matter and spirit.

Mikhi, please forgive me if you could elaborate on what was unclear. I claim that tradition is not good evidence. Because there is an example of different traditions. It is known that there was a dispute since the days of the Second Temple. Therefore, you have a tradition of one side. And without evidence, while the other traditions do not hold due to lack of evidence.
The second part is my supposedly philosophical opinion on the place of animal skin in human life. Which is completely unnecessary and other opinions on human customs. Including the claim that all the works of man's hands (creations) in the world are unnecessary and have only harmed the world instead of elevating and preserving it (the Garden of Eden). And I spoke according to the words of the Gemara in Tractate Berakhot, which supports this claim that says “God spends the works of His hands and the works of man spend Him” (with an imprecise change). There is simply an opinion that does not need a tannery or smelly skins that undergo chemical processing and destroy our world, to say the least. And you tied the sign on your hand is a spiritual bond that you will know that when you go to war, it is not my strength and the might of my hand that made me this strong, but the bond with the Creator of the world who brought me out of the land of Egypt to give me the land of my ancestors, the promised land, and that I will always remember this bond in wars.
And regarding the tears between your eyes, it is as if I have always turned God against me. And this is actually also the answer to Levinger, who here I have brought you other evidence that can be heard on the other side, just as you bring evidence that is heard in favor of tefillin.
The argument is in the interpretation and this is such an important mitzvah!!! They did not interpret it? It simply does not make sense.
And I also mentioned that the Israelites were never punished for not putting on tefillin, on the other hand they were punished for:
Idolatry, idolatry, fornication among the nations, strange fire, forbidden eating by the priests, claims against God in the wilderness, gratuitous hatred, and more. I have never read a verse that Angry at the people of Israel who did not tie tefillin every morning.
In contrast, there was anger when they attributed their success to their own strength.
And I will add and say about Levinger's words that it only supports what I say that the Israelites did not tie their faith in the desert even though there is no black, fertile, and fertile soil there. And they asked to return there because they were afraid of dying. As if the land led them through the desert and not the miracles and wonders and food of angels.
I hope I am clearer now.
It is not possible that a mitzvah that is so important spiritually and from a Gemara perspective is not mentioned before.

In the days of the Second Temple, we find the wearing of tefillin not only among the Pharisees, but also among their great rivals, the Judean Desert sect. It is clear that there was a much older tradition here, which survived among all of them, and as I mentioned, the tradition is well anchored in the plain text of the Scriptures in which the Torah commands four times to put a sign and a memorial on the hand and the head. Do you have a more explicit statement about the importance of remembering the faith than the words of the Torah: ‘That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied on the earth…’?

The Karaite sect, which arose in the middle of the period of the Geonim, had no older tradition, and therefore split into endless sects. The ’Beta Yisrael’ In Ethiopia there was great devotion to the faith, but many of the commandments explicitly stated in the Torah were forgotten by them due to the destruction and decrees that were passed upon them - no tzitzit, no tefillin, mezuzah, no shofar, no sukkah, no four species, no yibom, no haletzah, no prohibition of the high places, and the commandment "and recite them to your children", even the Hebrew language was forgotten by them. And is it said that they have a tradition from the days of the First Temple that the Torah be written in the Ge'ez language?

With blessings, S.C. Levinger

It is possible that it is because the Ge'ez language is distinct from their everyday language. And it is quite similar to other Semitic languages in my humble opinion. And the commandment to "Yeboom" is explicitly written in the Torah, right? Why wouldn't they keep it?
I know that they have their own ancient tradition and they also have enough answers for everything.
We are arguing while they have one leadership and one law without division..
It was not said to put a memorial on the head. The head was never mentioned. It was said and it was for a sign on your hand and for a memorial between your eyes or to be put between your eyes. It makes more sense to say “And you shall put these words on your heart and on your soul”
After all, the hand is opposite the heart and the soul is the head. Even though it is said that blood is the soul.
As for the Karaites, I have no idea when the truth began and into which sects it split, but they have a tradition not to put it on with their own ways of interpreting the verses.
Did the Sadducees put on tefillin? The Christians, of course, have nothing to elaborate on, they are irrelevant.
But we ourselves have no evidence. And tradition is not enough. Because as I said, tradition can go wrong..
It is a fact that you have the tefillin of Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam. And it is true that there is a halachic settlement for putting both on.
But you can still see that tradition can change. And today you have many types of traditions.
And in fact, there has always been division, since the days of Rehoboam and Jeroboam ben Nebat and the division of the kingdom.
We worshipped idols. And it was not mentioned anywhere that we ever sinned by not putting on tefillin.

In the Book of D&C 27, Rashi and R’s opinions both come from a common source. In a baraita in the Gemara it is stated: “And it shall be holy, and it shall come to you from the right; and it shall be heard, and it shall be heard from the left.” And the discussion is about the internal order in the left division. The fact that the baraita does not explicitly clarify what the internal order is in the left division helps the author of the Aruch Shulchan explain that, in principle, both options are good and the discussion is about which option is preferable (this explanation is also aided by the fact that the remains of tefillin found in the Judean Desert contain both “tefillin dershçyi” and “derçt”).

With greetings, Sh.C. Levinger

The right-hand section ‘Kedesh and may it bring you’ expresses the role of the tefillin in remembering the Exodus from Egypt; the left-hand section ‘Shema and may it be heard’ expresses the role of the tefillin in internalizing in the human heart the love of God and His sight. (Where ‘Shema’ emphasizes, as the Rabbis say, the work out of love, and ’And may it be heard’ the work out of fear).

Hello Daniel.
I have elaborated. Everything was not clear. Beyond that, I asked that we deal with this question by question, because you are mixing several unrelated questions and it is difficult for me to conduct several discussions at the same time (I do it this way here too).
Therefore, I will start here with the question of tradition. I have already explained here more than once that the validity of tradition does not lie in its accuracy or in the absence of errors. There certainly were some errors, and there are certainly many more that we do not know are errors. The validity of tradition is due to the acceptance and agreement of the public and the sages, just like the public's agreement on the giving of the Torah itself (I think I referred here to Beit Yishai's sermons on the 12th century, which extended this, and as is known, its source is Rabbi Kook).
If the Ethiopians or others have a different tradition, let them uphold the tradition they have. I am convinced that they will not come to any of them with claims even if they are wrong. But the same is true for us. We have no better way to know what God intended, and we are probably not required to try and arrive at it in ways other than through halakhic and Talmudic research. And this is the meaning of the story in Achnai's oven, "It is not in the heavens" (when you read it, you will see that this is the essence of the dispute between the Rabbi and his friends, to what extent what determines is God's intention or our own understanding). God expects us to do what we understand and not necessarily what He intended. The question of commitment does not depend on the question of authenticity (= is this God's original intention?).
I ask that if you have an argument or claim regarding this, continue only with that. When we are finished, we can move on to your other questions. All the best.

Thanks for sharing, you've updated me 🙂 No, not on Torah sayings 🙂
But unfortunately, that doesn't answer my question. Because I'll say again that there is no source in the entire Bible that the Israelites were punished for not putting on tefillin. And in addition, I read this morning that the opinion of the Rashb”m is indeed that tefillin is not needed, but it is really in the metaphorical sense of tying it to the letter and the totefet like a piece of jewelry that is put on the head metaphorically. So we have the opinion of Rashi Rashb”m, called Rabbeinu Tam.
I also happened to learn for myself that there were two commentators on Hebrew words, one named Menachem ben Saruk, and the one who disagreed on him was Adonim Halevi (Donesh ben Libert), and in fact, the entire controversy that has existed since then, and probably since the days of the Sadducees, is not whether there is a Creator in the world, but rather in the interpretation of the commandments and the acceptance of the words of the sages as the only interpretation and unambiguous halakhah. Menachem ben Saruk interpreted according to his opponents' claim in a Karaite manner.
Incidentally, if we follow the rules of jurisprudence that say that the one who was born first was wiser.
“If we are first like angels, we are like humans, and if they are like humans, we are like donkeys” (the words of Maran Shulchan Aruch, if I am not mistaken). So here is Rashi (first of the Rishonim) preceded by Menachem ben Saruk (from the time of the Geonim). And there were also disputes during the time of the Geonim. It turns out that there was never a halakha or tradition that was decided upon by everyone, but rather that a certain group started a tradition that it formulated according to Chazal, and it also went through some disruptions.
Therefore, the matter of tradition is not accepted by me. Even halakha is not determined according to tradition, but according to what the great sages of the generation decide, and it turns out that there is a division in the people between the Moroccans and the great Sephardic poskim, and other denominations on all sorts of issues. Muslims have a tradition of killing those who do not want to remain Muslims and they also pray to God and supposedly believe in Him, but that does not mean that their tradition is correct. There are many traditions and beliefs while there is only one thing that cannot change, and that is the Torah that we received at Sinai. Although, in my humble opinion, in one of the tractates it is stated that there were 3 Torah scrolls in the Temple that were slightly different from each other. And the flavors of the Bible and the punctuation and even the shape of the letters are slightly different among the different denominations. There are those who will say that their books are invalid, but that is their tradition. Who determined that one tradition is better than the other?? Do you understand why I say that tradition is the thing that has led to the most disputes and the most problems. Therefore, God said, “Keep my commandments,” and not commandments that others invented. I am obligated to keep the commandments of God, and not traditions. And the problem is that those who repent are without tradition (like me). And we find ourselves in a situation where no one can rely on anything but what is written in the Torah, and if there is no interpretation even for the sages of the Gemara and they say tradition? What am I supposed to do? “Go out on the heels of the sheep” If the footsteps are blurred, what do we do? The halakha was said to Moses from Sinai and without any footsteps. (Because tefillin was never said in the Holy Language and we were never punished for it. And you never heard of Elijah the Prophet or Abraham or any other leader waking up and putting on tefillin).

Forgive me for answering this way, but according to your words, it sounds like someone who is secular is a righteous person. Because he does what he sees fit to do. And it is not possible for a small group of sages to establish a law for the entire nation. They are not prophets and they are not priests and in fact they are what they are called sages (learned wisdom). There are sages among the nations of the world as well, and wisdom is not enough; one also needs the Holy Spirit. And a connection to the Creator of the world. And the fact that today this is not there and they claim that the Holy Spirit was with Rashi and other sages at a time when prophecy ceased long ago.
Therefore, someone who does not put on tefillin because it seems to him so.. or someone who offers sacrifices outside the Temple is called a righteous person? This is how they answered me: Just as a car has a book of rules, so too does our world, which is much more complex, have a book of rules. If you are wrong in understanding the book, you are not doing it correctly. And if you are not doing the will of God and His commandments as He wants, why do you do any of the commandments in the first place? In addition, Tractate Avot says, “Do His will as you will, so that He may do your will as He will.”
Set aside your will from His will, so that He may set aside the will of others from your will.
So what does it matter what your will is and what your intention is? We do not determine anything. Only God and His Torah.
The first man was given the task of guarding the Garden of Eden and not making different desires.

I must say that your claims here seem very strange to me.
1. So what if there is no source that the Israelites were punished for not putting on tefillin? And what about the redemption of a severe peter, or the blessing of food? There is no such source for almost all of halakha. What does this prove? Either they were not punished for it, or they did put on tefillin and therefore there is nothing to punish them for, or even if they were punished, for some reason the Bible did not see it as a problem for its writers for generations.
2. What you quoted from Rashb”m in his commentary on the Torah is also very strange to me. His words there are not a different tradition. He explains explanations that are not related to halakha but to the tama dekra. After all, there is no doubt that he himself put on tefillin, and so did all his family members (Rashi, R”i and R”t). It is like saying that an eye under an eye of money is a different tradition than an eye under an eye of money. The real is the simple and the halakhah is the kadresh, and the gates of interpretation have not been closed. But there is a halakhic tradition and it is decisive.
3. But the strangest assumption in your words is the assumption that the one who came before was wiser. I have never heard this rule. At most, I have heard that in general there is a descent of generations (and in my opinion this too does not concern the descent of talent but rather the authority and proximity to the source), but how come if someone was born earlier then he was wiser? And make questions difficult by virtue of this? This is how you can make difficult the Queen's or the Queen's questions and engage in entertaining arguments all your life.
In one place I saw such a strange thing, and it is in obtaining the Rabbah in the Rabba of the Halacha of Miriam. He makes it difficult for the Rambam, even if he had a taste for them, to have a great rabbi in wisdom and minyan to overturn the words of an earlier rabbi, such as the rabbi of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai regarding the decoration of the markets of Jerusalem with fruit. He assumes, of course, that the rabbi was younger than his predecessors, and probably only based on the fact that he was after them. But this is of course absurd, because if the later is necessarily younger, then you have emptied the content of the demand that the rabbi who overturns the words of his predecessor be great in wisdom and minyan, because this is not possible by definition (because the younger is younger). Incidentally, the rabbi also compared the great men of the current generation and the previous one, but you go even further and claim that everyone who was born earlier is wiser. And especially when you compare eloquent rabbis to eminent rabbis. This is baseless babbling.
D. Regarding the existence of different traditions, I have already answered.

On the 4th of Shvat 7th

To Daniel – Greetings,

Since your main problem with tefillin is the use of leather, which undermines the order of Genesis, which is why there is a disaster in the use of belts and shoes – then who is greater to us than the first Adam, for whom the Creator of the world himself prepared leather shirts to wear. Therefore, if you doubt the tradition accepted in all Israel to wear wool and cotton clothes – you must be careful to wear only leather clothes like our ancestors Adam and Eve 🙂 and our ancestor Jacob, who put goat skins on his hands and around the neck

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Regarding the fear of mistakes in tradition – there are several strong defenses in the Torah.

The basic defense is as Akaviah ben Mahalalel said, who instructed his son to accept from the “many” who received from the “many.” That is why the Torah referred in the event of a dispute to the place chosen by the “many” where all Israel gathers three times a year, so that the “decisions of the priest or judge” receive criticism and confirmation from the entire nation and its sages. Thus, when a Sadducee who took over the office of High Priest tried to deviate from tradition, the entire nation stoned him with their stones. Even if an individual or community errs or deviates from tradition, they cannot pass on their error to the entire nation.

The second defense is the Oral Torah, which also contains the rules, reasons, and guiding principles from which the details and details of the details are derived. This Torah is not esoteric, handed down only to a handful of priests, but rather, under the guidance of the members of the Great Synod, they raised up many disciples. Thus, in the council houses during the days of the Tannaim and the Amoraim, thousands and tens of thousands of sages and disciples would gather, whose discussions were summarized in the literature of the Sages, in the Mishnah and Baraita, in the Talmud and Midrash, from which we can learn what the common foundation was, what was the point of disagreement, and what was the decision of the majority of the sages.

Even when the exile increased and Israel was scattered to all corners of the world and there was no single Torah center, everyone already had a unified foundation of the Tanakh, the Mishnah, and the Talmud, which united Israel throughout the exiles. An Ashkenazi Jew who came to Persia or Morocco and vice versa could enter the synagogue, pray the same prayer order with them, beyond the changes in the text that do not hinder, wear the tallit and put on their tefillin, eat from their slaughter and marry their daughters, and study the same common Torah with them.

Thus the Ashkenazi fleeing leader is accepted as the rabbi of the Toledo community in Spain and his descendants (the Ben-Ha-Rosh family) establish a Torah oleh in Morocco; the descendants of Rabbi Zerchia Halevi Girondi come from Spain and Provence to Ashkenazi and Poland and establish the Horowitz family, whose descendants shine there; and the Ben-Nevnesti family come from Spain to the city of Epstein in Germany, and from there spread throughout Ashkenazi Russia and Poland, as evidenced by Rabbi Baruch Halevi Epstein, author of Torah Temimah.

When there is a common infrastructure, shades and nuances can develop, which, despite all the differences in details and emphasis, clearly all came from a single shepherd. When, God forbid, the common infrastructure falls apart, it cuts here and cuts there - at the end of the day, nothing remains of Judaism, first being swallowed up in the culture of the Gentiles and finally physically assimilated through intermarriage.

Best regards, S.C. Levinger.

After reaching the most serious offenses – idolatry, incest, bloodshed and gratuitous hatred – it no longer matters much whether one puts on tefillin or not.

Putting on tefillin, and thereby strengthening one's faith in it’ love and fear of it and in studying the Torah and keeping its commandments, could, if they were done with joy, be a treatment that prevents the moral deterioration that comes from losing faith.

With best wishes, S.C. Levinger

Daniel, regarding your second message (which I didn't see before). Again, I don't really follow the course of your discussion. It's very mixed, and it's hard to understand what the point is. So I'll address each aspect you raised separately.

Indeed, anyone who does what seems right to them is righteous. As long as they checked as much as they could and came to their conclusions honestly. At most, they are wrong about rape, and the judge has only what his eyes see.

What is needed for me to determine is authority, not wisdom, and not a connection to the Creator. Wisdom and a connection to the Creator are at most a reason for giving authority to someone. As far as I understand, Rashi did not have the Holy Spirit in any supernatural sense.

The way in which they converted you is not necessarily the correct way of thinking. So these are not reasons. In order to establish something, arguments must be brought to the substance of the matter.

Forgive me, because that's how I understood that there is a tradition and just as I say I don't disagree with the Tanna (although I understood that there are cases where they did), so too will the latter not disagree with the Rishonim and their predecessors. And when I asked my rabbi why they specifically study Rashi's commentary and not the Rambam or the Light of Life. He answered me this way: First of all, they are based on Rashi and Rashi preceded them. And so in the first grade in the yeshiva, they raised the same question and this is the answer we received, that Rashi preceded the Rambam and therefore we study Rashi on the Seder.
I apologize in advance for the confusion, I have my own language of communication and the topics are interconnected.
Regarding (1) Petar Hamor, this is a fairly rare mitzvah, as far as I know.. Just as a solar eclipse is also a rare mitzvah to bless it. On the other hand, tefillin is a daily mitzvah and there is much said about it in the Talmud. He who does not put it on is called a people of the land and he who does put it on has all his sins atoned for, etc. There is no comparison at all. Regarding the blessing on food, there is no evidence for it, but there is a sign for it: “Under which you did not serve the’ your God with joy and with a good heart above all– and you served your enemies whom the’ In you in hunger and thirst and nakedness and want of all things, and we will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He destroys you”
Who am I to demand but this shows that we did not serve Him with joy but it can also be interpreted that when we were in joy and had food and all good things we did not serve the ’ and what kind of work is that? Work of the heart! We did not bless Him for all the good we received. In any case, the commandment of tefillin is very, very important, no less than idolatry, since everyone who puts on tefillin testifies to the Exodus from Egypt and more.. Therefore, if they sinned in it, the ’ would certainly have mentioned it.. And if the people of Israel fornicated after the idols and idols and Baal and vanities, who said that they put on tefillin?
2) Why does the halacha determine and not the simple facts? Was the Torah written for nothing? Was it simply preserved for so many years? I did not study Rashba, I only heard the reason from another forum. After all, the simple facts are also halacha. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk” This is from the Torah. And the halacha. In addition, there is a sage's regulation for meat and milk.
3) I already answered you and I did not understand what you brought from the Rabbi.
Regarding the way they rebuked me from a logical point of view. This is also from Genesis. First of all, they told about the creation of the world and only then did they detail the commandments. If the Torah is a book of instruction, why did they start with the story of the creation of the world? In my humble opinion, the Rashb”ham says that in order to fulfill the commandments of the Sabbath, it was necessary to detail the creation, otherwise how would man understand that the Creator made the heavens and the earth in six days and on the seventh day He rested. On the other hand, Rashi says so that the nations would not come with claims about the Land of Israel. And the Ramban, if I am not mistaken, said so that man would understand that there is a Creator in the world so that he would accept the commandments. Therefore, if a man does not understand that the Torah is a book of practical rules for life on Earth, how would he accept what is written there? This is not a fantasy book. Therefore, as the “Mesilat Yesharim” also says, that a man who does a commandment elevates himself and the whole world with him, and when he transgresses a not-to-do, he destroys himself and the whole world with him. And so it is with a car that is well maintained according to the Creator or a car that is not made according to the laws. It is found that it is in the power of man to repair and elevate the world or to destroy it.
And it all depends on our actions…either we do according to the book or not.

Levinger I will answer you separately 🙂 Thanks again for helping me…I love the tefillin and don't want to end up in heresy..

Well, I think this discussion has been exhausted. There are quite a few mistakes in what you said here, but as far as I understand, I've already answered everything and we're scattering again.

In my humble opinion, Adam and Eve lost their coats of light because of sin and He, in His great mercy, gave them coats of skin.
So that they would not be ashamed of each other because now they “know”. They had a spiritual exterior and because of their betrayal in it, they received clothes of the tongue of betrayal. It is never said that He slaughtered an animal or took an animal that died and prepared for them coats of skin. In my humble opinion, this is the skin that we have. And do you have the skin of an animal? This is more punishment than grace. Because they received physicality instead of spirituality.
And our father Jacob did this to resemble Esau when his father Isaac touched him.. “And the voice is the voice of Jacob and the hands are the hands of Esau.” In my humble opinion, we are from the seed of Jacob and strive to behave like him in a measure of glory. And not to resemble Esau in any way.
Regarding “not in the sky…” I have nothing to say, it all depends on the belief of the sages and to raise many disciples, this is to spread the new “Torah of the Sages” called Halacha to the masses. And not everyone was in the Beit Midrash, so not everyone was privileged to establish the Halacha, but only a few. I see this as political steps, just as there is a Megillat Taanit, which says that Beit Shammai was the majority in the Beit Midrash and did not allow the students of Beit Hillel to enter so that Halacha would be established like them, and therefore this day was established as a Fast Day. (I read this in Yalkut Yosef).
Are you bringing me proof from Aqabiyyah ben Mahalel of the validity of his words… Halacha is as manyࢶ So if everyone drives like crazy on the roads, does that justify it? And if tomorrow a law is passed that makes drugs legal, will the law also allow me to smoke cannabis just for the sake of “pleasure”? What if the whole world rebels against it’ and only I remain to believe in it, the law like them? Abraham is the proof! According to tradition, he studied in the school of Methuselah or where I don’t remember exactly. And then he listened to the command of God, not to the law he received from the school of law (it is possible that there was no contradiction). Is there a law to slaughter your son as a test? No! Abraham did not hesitate, he did what he asked. And even after he publicly demanded not to do it! He went against the law!! For whom?
He was only anxious about the word of God. And therefore he deserved all the blessings and therefore we were redeemed and atoned for our sins only because of him 🙂
And this is the reason the Temple was destroyed..: We did not listen to God when He rebuked us through the prophets.
At the Tower of Babel, all of humanity united to rebel against the Lord.. and the Lord confused their language.
If we take a moment to reflect, the Gemara in a language I don't know was written in Babylon. In exile.
There are disagreements (confusion) and there are thousands of opinions and schools of thought. Why? Because we preferred to listen to the sages rather than the word of the Lord. We preferred to give a crown to the great men of the generation instead of the Lord. A crown of priesthood. A crown of royalty. A crown of Torah.
And what was Samuel angry with the people of Israel? Who sought to enthrone a king of flesh and blood rather than the Lord.. They wanted to resemble all the nations. How are we different from all the nations if we enthrone flesh and blood over us (the sages). I am not talking about leadership in which the leader conveys the word of the Lord. But leadership in which the leader decides on his own accord to carry out actions. And we will learn about this from Moses our Lord who struck the rock and did not speak to him.
We live in a democratic country whose laws are determined by the majority in a Greek type of government. And in law it is determined by the majority. I see a lot of similarities between Greece and Judaism right now. Where is the difference??
A wise man will not rely on his wisdom…According to what is law determined today..? Not according to the wisdom of the sages and the dayanim?
If we all followed the simple things, in my humble opinion, the world would be better. And there would be no disputes. And those who follow secrets and hasidism and grammar and boundaries and regulations and do not follow the simple things….
And this is what it seems to me that tefillin is also a good and successful invention of the sages and not a true Kabbalah from Sinai.
I know that this sounds a bit heretical but that is the Epicurus in me. And it is important that I know what to answer him.
Thank you very much for helping me 🙂

And there were many more leaders and kings who led the whole nation astray.. by idolatry.
Why then did the people not throw away etrogim? On the other hand, they disregarded the prophets' rebukes until a mother ate her own children and all the bad prophecies came true... and today rabbis exploit their knowledge for power!

Even the sages of the Gemara scattered to clarify issues in the Gemara, and we did not exhaust the discussion because tradition is not sufficient proof. And blind faith is the only thing that keeps me from fulfilling the mitzvot. In the hope that this is truly the will of God.

Bishvat 7

To Daniel, greetings,

If you believe in the written Torah, it is clear that there is no problem with the use of leather. God made for Adam and Eve coats of leather to wear. Even the sign of the prophet Elijah was to “gird his loins with a girdle of leather” (2 Kings 1). The Torah explains four times that there is a commandment to bind the words of the Torah as a sign on the hand and as a reminder between the eyes (which is the height of the head, like “You shall not make bald patches between your eyes,” which is certainly in place of hair).

The Sages had a tradition of receiving the Torah from one person to another in the fundamentals of Torah interpretation and the ways of virtue that the Torah requires, as stated at the beginning of Tractate Avot: “Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders, and the elders transmitted it to the people of the Great Assembly.” And from them the Oral Torah was transmitted to the Tannaim and the Amoraim. In what was not transmitted in the Kabbalah, they had to discuss the interpretations and the “image of a word to a word.” And in these matters a dispute could arise, in which they decided by majority opinion as the Torah instructs: “After many, incline.”

A detailed description of the chain of Kabbalah from Sinai to the Sages can be found in the Maimonides’ introduction to his commentary on the Mishnah and in his introduction to the Mishnah Torah.

A detailed explanation of the manner in which the sages learned and expounded their laws from the Scriptures can be found in the book “Torah Tamimah” on the Torah, by Rabbi Baruch Halevi Epstein, zt., which contains the essence of the sermons of the sages in the Talmud with a clear explanation.

Comprehensive knowledge of the words of Chazal, their reasons, justifications, and foundations will be given to you by studying the Mishnah with the clear and concise commentary of Rabbi Pinchas Kehaty zt”l. A brief summary of the foundations of the commandments, their laws, and reasons will be given to you by the ‘Sefer Ha-Hanuqu’, for the student of the Rashba, which explains the 33 commandments of the Torah. These foundational books will open a way for you to understand the words of Chazal.

Next, it is worth studying the words of the Talmud in order, with Rashi and the rulings of the Rashi, which summarizes the methods of the Rishonim, who often disagree with Rashi, the authors of the Tosofats of the Rifa and the Rambam. Here it is worth entering into a systematic lesson from a Maggid A lesson that can explain well even to those who did not have the privilege of studying in yeshivah from their youth. If you live in Jerusalem, the daily Talmud lesson of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu, head of the Beit Midrash “Darache Hora”, can help you. But there are many such frameworks all over the country.

There is no substitute for organized study, chapter by chapter, page by page. A random collection of bits of information, from what you found by chance in this book, or stumbled upon by chance in this “forum”, will only increase the confusion and embarrassment you are in. On the other hand, organized study will organize and arrange your Torah knowledge and give you a clear understanding from the basics and rules to the details.

Best regards, S.C. Levinger

It is true that he clothed them with physical skin instead of spiritual skin, which is actually our skin.. (clothe = shame)
Regarding Elijah, I don't know and I will learn about that…
Regarding the tying, I have already said that there are opinions that say that the tying is metaphorical.
Therefore, the number of times it is said to tie does not really matter. (Regarding our topic)..
There is hair between the eyes.. and the height of the eyes is not at the height where tefillin is placed.
Thanks for the advice on the way of learning.. I try to formulate a view while rejecting views according to their results.. (disputes, gratuitous hatred, poverty, etc.).
I try to study a book, a book, each opinion of an interpreter separately. I do not like the method in which one partially agrees with one interpreter and rejects his other opinions. And so one takes a little from each interpreter and builds a law for many according to their wisdom. Only the ’ sees us all from above.. and even Moses appointed policemen because one cannot manage an entire people alone. We are so far from nature that we do not even observe the words of Chazal regarding environmental quality. And most of the yeshivahs I attended were very far from nature and education in nature. Therefore, we do not observe many of the commandments that are hanging over the country like hybrids. Today, hardly anyone understands trees and plants to teach the people. Haredim are stuck in Bnei Brak instead of settling down in the desert for a while. And in general, our type of agriculture has destroyed nature. (Monoculture) while our nature (Polyculture) strives to restore itself, but man and the law destroy everything. We are raised to strive to learn like the greats of a generation who only study and do not leave the house... instead of restoring, building, settling, and making the wilderness bloom. Half the country is hungry and the Haredim are talking about chicken to sit instead of vegetables and fruits. I see strange leadership overall... and all this in the name of the law.

On the Sabbath of Shvat Ezra

To Daniel, greetings,

Chazal and the first, with their greatness in the Torah, were engaged in the settlement of the world. Hillel was a woodcutter; Shammai, a builder; Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabbi Yochanan, blacksmiths; Rashi and Rebbe, wine merchants; Rambam and Ramban, physicians; many of the sages of Yemen were goldsmiths.

Only in recent centuries, as questions have multiplied, both as a result of the development of life and as a result of the increase in enlightenment, has everyone today become wise and intelligent and asks questions about what and why. There is a need for scholars who will devote most of their time to in-depth study of the Torah so that they can provide an appropriate response to the many questions.

The phenomenon of ’specialization’ exists in our time in all areas of human knowledge. If in the days of Maimonides, you could be a great Torah scholar in halakhah and thought, a philosopher, a physician, a naturalist, a jurist, and a political-social leader. Today, there is a need for a full-time expert in every field and subfield.

Today, there is a broad stratum of Torah-observant Jews, who are as careful as they are serious, involved in all areas of life – military and security, science, technology, and medicine, commerce, banking, industry, agriculture, education, and culture – who set times for the Torah and receive halakhic guidance from Torah gurus at every step of their lives.

My son Avihai studies in a Hesder yeshiva in Moshav Shadmot-Mekhola, which is full of farmers and liberal professionals, all of whom are Torah scholars. My father-in-law lives in Moshav Keshet, a moshav of Torah scholars. His son, my son-in-law, is a permanent member of the Jewish community, as are his other brothers and sisters - after receiving a solid Torah foundation in yeshivas and ulpans, they are engaged in the settlement of the world, each in his own profession.

My Haredi teacher, R. Rachamim (Rami) Shauli, a student of Rabbi Mordechai Neugerschel, teaches a Daf Yomi lesson at the Shteibel of Zichron Moshe at four in the morning for people like him who recharge their batteries with Torah study and prayer before going out to their daily labors.

He who fills his head with Torah and morality, and lives within the clear boundaries set for him by the Torah, has no time to deal with the nonsense of jealousy and gratuitous hatred that endlessly occupy the world of politics, journalism, and the Internet, which is immersed in the corrupt aspects of the ‘ambush culture’. The more one deals with and deepens matters of Torah and wisdom and the aspiration to do what is good and right, – one is freed from the constant pursuit of envy, lust, and honor, and gains ’blessed in this world and good for you in the world to come’

With greetings, S.C. Levinger

And regarding ‘leather shirts - if you really think that clothing is shameful and brings a person to materialism – then get out of the way 🙂 I think that ’leather shirts’ are ’leather shirts’ And a binding is a binding, and I don't understand the need to distort the plain and distort the scriptures.

You made me happy to hear that there are pure Jews who sacrifice their lives 🙂 It's just that in the city it's different…
In cities, yeshivahs have no nature-loving alternatives… and in general, they don't recycle and aren't that ecological when they have mitzvah feasts and use tons of disposable dishes a year. Without even thinking a little about where all this waste goes. Of course, not all of them, but most of the Haredim, do this, and so do secular ones, but I simply expect the Haredim and every true God-fearing person, especially the Talmud, to be more elevated and act like the sages of the Gemara who calculated their every action in the world and knew whether it was beneficial or not. Therefore, distancing themselves from nature is not good and is not suitable for great sages. Especially since there is one tractate that says that a sage will only live in a city that has “green”. And he won't live in volumes because volumes are hard. And if we look at Chinese sages, you will see where they live in isolated mountains full of green nature and study and live their whole lives modestly and study and teach. And we? Are we less than them? Why should I be more stupid than a Sinai? I am a Jew! I should be a thousand times better than him.
You can also learn in nature… You don't have to be locked in a suffocating concrete structure with stands and in enormous overcrowding to learn Torah and wisdom and call it devotion.. The Creator of the world never asked for this. There must be a new trend in which yeshivahs are taken out into nature and actual issues are studied. “And I have given grass in your field to your cattle…” How many people have fields and cattle today? How will God give us abundance if we don't receive abundance in the way that He gives’ Is closing children in crowded places and cut off from nature in a yeshiva or a room a good way to teach? Maybe in exile but not in our Land of Israel. We are obligated to restore it and make it flourish. Indeed, the great Rabbi, peace be upon him, whose right may protect us, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, said that rabbis today are similar to doctors. In the past, you would go to one doctor (the same person) for every physical problem you had, and today you have everything separately, a doctor who only understands the hand, only the head, only the back (as if our body is separated into parts and not all one whole system). And so do rabbis today who only understand finances or only relationships or only Halacha and so on and so forth. How can one even receive leadership from them in the world? A person needs to be complete in knowing everything because everything is connected to everything! For example, the ’Chazon Ish’ had knowledge of medicine and advised doctors on surgeries. And did he study medicine? He studied Torah and linked it to life because it is not in the sky and he did not seek dry laws. If you do not know where your food comes from, how will you sanctify yourself? If you do not work the land, how will you get food from it? Wisdom is important in every field in order to get closer to the Creator, the Blessed One.
You can't eat money... If we destroy nature and don't protect it, who will repair the damage?
Man is not exempt from being tied to everything! Especially a scholar! And every child, as long as he is small, should know how to absorb knowledge about everything!! Why? Because only in this way will he be truly wise! Think outside the box... God wants to give us abundance, if we haven't received it, then we are doing something wrong... and tying leather tefillin strips do not help to flourish and provide abundance directly, to the best of my knowledge... On the other hand, the mitzvot that depend on the land do!
And tying a spiritual bond is more important than tying a leather strap. If I know that everything is from the Creator of the world and remember every day that I was a slave in Egypt and see God in everything in the world (again, the thought that you need to know everything and not just one thing) and do it like a jewel between my eyes that sparkles in my eye and I see it no matter what I look at. That's how it is in life to see God In everything. In my opinion, it is more important than tying straps. (Who am I to decide anything, but that is my opinion).
I see everything quite simply while the halakha goes into details and forgets about the basics of a right life.
Until then, you will probably visit a supermarket for marketed and processed food that is far from nature and has gone through a million processes before you put it in your mouth, and that is what you will feed your children and expect them to learn the Gammarat like our sages, the late, while they put something harmful into their bodies… “And you will be sanctified and be holy to your God” It is not me saying it is the one who created the world saying this…And you will eat sprays because you think it prevents insects when it only makes the situation worse, while soils that have not been sprayed and are grown with smart and properly planned crops without sprays are free of insects, maybe slugs…
Regarding the verse "coats of skin," the matter is that I am not distorting it, I am simply interpreting it differently from a different perspective. Which, by the way, is not far from the opinion of the Sages who also say that man initially had coats of spiritual light and then received coats of skin. This is not my personal opinion.

Levinger Thank you very much for sharing with me. You really make me smile 🙂

But, most residents of this small country do not have the financial means and the ability to purchase a house attached to the land, with a chicken coop and a barn and adjacent organic seed and orchard areas. God did not plant us right now in the reality of Paradise, but in this world.

When we understand that God wants us to live and do good with what we have and not with what we do not have - to live happily in our lot and not with endless complaints about the "whole world and its wife",

With blessings, S.C. Levinger

Disposable plates are an inexorable necessity. Not everyone has a dishwasher and not everyone has the strength to wash mountains of dishes after a large meal. It's worth it from time to time to have mercy on family members or the sun of the synagogue, and not to sacrifice them on the altar of sustainability and recycling: ‘Let people live’ 🙂

When the Haredim want something, they fight well. On the halakhah of a rabbi and the like.
So why don't we fight to get a house attached to the ground instead of a concrete cage that oppresses many couples. Especially with the difficulty of finding apartments and paying rent. Instead, all that is needed is to settle the rest of the Land of Israel like one Haredi family is doing in Moshav Azuz, which is on the border with Egypt. And I believe that there are other families throughout the country. So instead of closing themselves off in the center in cages and living stupidly, we can live as the ’ asks. If a Jew wants to be on a scale higher than still, growing, living, speaking, then he has to be better and today there are even monkeys who are better than some Jews, unfortunately… from whom the Holy One, blessed be He, demands more.
And ”You sanctified them” We are a people that He sanctified from other nations, and therefore we must be like a faithful wife who does everything her husband wants and behaves in accordance with her husband's standards in order to please him. We need to be like her. And that's why there are complaints. When you expect more from a successful child, does that mean he's a bad child? He just needs to improve because he can.
Regarding washing dishes, our mother Sarah didn't have a dishwasher. And the sun doesn't have to wash dishes alone. We need to help him. The strength of the people of Israel is when they are united. Even in washing dishes. Just as sometimes a husband has to roll up his sleeves and do dishes to make his wife happy even though he is the Chief Rabbi of Israel. Just as you had the strength to entertain and feast so that you would have the strength to tidy up and clean. There is gratitude both for the dishes that were used by you and for the table. The prophet Samuel would carry his utensils everywhere he went to strengthen the people of Israel.
You never heard him throw or disdain the utensils that were used by him.
And it was said about Jacob, when Esau's servant came to kill him, that he wrestled with him (a battle of wits): Jacob rebelled against him and said to him, "The poor man is considered dead." And Esau's servant took his utensils instead of killing him. From here we learn how important it is to value even the smallest assets. And especially to recycle and stop the attitude of “waste and destroy”. As if it were possible to hide all the mess that man makes. “And your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground”.
And we do all the commandments only to correct the sin of the first man and return to the Garden of Eden.
If we transgress the same sins of the first man: that God asked him ’Are you crying?” and that God did not know where he was? But wanted to awaken him that we cannot escape from the’ and the mess that sins create. Do we give our minds to correct ourselves and the world? There are important things! Especially since all this plastic kills animals and we have a prohibition against animal cruelty. Why did you come into the world to destroy it with your actions or to correct it?
“A mitzvah that comes with sin is not a mitzvah”… If they serve pork at a mitzvah feast, will it please the’?
How angry the’ was with the people of Israel who ate at Ahasuerus' feast. We are Jews and it is required of us and we need to change completely bestial customs. This is the difference between a mitzvah feast for the sake of heaven and a mitzvah feast for the sake of lust. It used to be difficult to have feasts, so they would really only do them to truly rejoice in the mitzvah. Today it has become a lustful custom and it is easy to have a feast. We go and buy everything ready-made. Borax, cakes, pastries, olives, dates, etc.’ Who even makes the effort? And then all the leftovers and garbage go into the trash so that a truck can come and hide the mess in the name of the mitzvah.
Call it grievances. I call it the will of the’. Today we evicted Jews. Even in the days of Joshua, Gentiles remained here in some of the cities. Why? Because the Israelites did not hurry to settle in the land. Judges Chapter 18 It is said that the tribe of Dan had not yet received an inheritance. An entire tribe did not settle in the land. 2.5 tribes settled outside the land. And the Levites do not receive an inheritance because their inheritance is from the Lord, blessed be He. If in the days of Joshua they had to settle, then today it is even easier! And if there was good leadership, they would settle. But to tie leather straps? Most importantly. Especially since the Israelites never received complaints about the lack of putting on tefillin. But they did receive complaints about the lack of settling in the Land of Israel. They were told to hurry!!! and not hesitate because the Lord is with us. If you had really tied your hand, you would not have told me that people could not afford a house with a garden. At a time when the Chabad, blessed be He, did not lack money and many other Hasidic practices. Believe that those who do the will of God will be helped from heaven. This is the difference between those who truly bind and those who physically bind. Until then, you will continue to raise a generation of people who know the law theoretically but cannot actually fulfill it, who will protect Israel and who will only aim to do His will and not anyone else's. It is forbidden to flatter anyone except what the law permits. I wonder why it permits this.
I first of all fear God. Fearing the sages is an addition. If you do not fulfill the will of God, what is the point of fulfilling the will of flesh and blood? Let him who rebels against the king go and listen to his servant? I hope I have made the point clear.

In the S”d Motzach”k and you have a sign of ”7

To Daniel – Peace be upon you,

According to your idea that tefillin express human activity, it is understandable why tefillin are not placed on Shabbat. During the six days of work, man is commanded to do work, to develop and perfect the world – and therefore the sign of tefillin comes as a sign to man, that he should not forget G’ who gives him the power to do good and that he should utilize his power of action also to add holiness, to develop not only the material world, but also the seeds of holiness in the heart and give them practical expression, that ’from actions hearts are drawn’.

But on Shabbat, man places a sign of the kingdom of G’ by taking a break from work and devoting his time to giving thanks to G’ And listening to His Torah – and therefore ‘Shabbat – is not a time for Tefillin’ which were set aside as a sign for the days of action.

With blessings of a good week, S.C. Levinger

I enjoyed the discussion – I enjoyed Daniel's words very much.

For now, I will only comment on the words of S. T. Acharon

First of all, let's start by saying that the tefillin connect us to our Creator according to the halacha (a connection – literally) Is there a more appropriate day than Shabbat to connect with God, which is today because we are off work and we cling to it more and there is no logic in preventing this mitzvah on Shabbat, God forbid!
B. It is said that the one who puts on tefillin is filled with radiance and above his head there is a halo that symbolizes an additional hardness, just as Shabbat is added to its holiness, so what is wrong with putting on on Shabbat and being added to this ”hala”?
C. Do you think that when Moses ascended Sinai, he took off the tefillin on the sixth day between the sunsets because their law is set?
D. “On your heart and talk of them when you are at home and when you walk on the road….” Everywhere we need to be connected to God, even in sleep - after all, when we wake up, they say, "You have restored my soul to me, so my body is preserved because of the tefillin."

I don't know how S.Z. dares to forget the reason, “That the law of the Lord may be in your mouth’ and that there is a holier day for studying Torah than the Sabbath, which we prevent ourselves from resting on.

F. You answered above about the tefillin of Rashi and Rabbah that were found in the Judean Desert from two orders of the tefillin parsiyat according to Rashi and Rabbah, and this is not accurate because you will see what Wikipedia says about it:
An exception is the tefillin from Cave 8 at Qumran (8Q 3), which contain only the four parsiyat, and the order of the first two parsiyat (“Kedesh”, “Vehiya ki yibiach”) is similar to the method of Rashi and the method of Rabbenu Tam, however the last two parsiyat (“Vehiya im shmu”, “Shema”) are written in parallel, column against column.
The spelling of the parsiyat also differs from the Masoretic text. In fact, only a minority of the Qumran tefillin are written according to the Masoretic text.[23]

So I do not accept your argument at all! In fact, if we were to examine it, we would conclude that not both tefillin should be used, but one of them! And shame on the rabbi who was Rashi's grandson, who "shared" his rabbi (grandfathers), even though this is what he memorized and passed on to him in the tradition!
7. If we were to refer to the simplicity of the matter and the will of God, we would understand that "and these things, which I command you today, are on your heart." 7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand; and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and upon your gates. ” He is not speaking of tefillin as an accessory, but of the Ten Commandments, and you are invited to examine in the Torah that I am not taking things out of their meaning or context. Deuteronomy Chapter 5’ to Chapter 6

I will further argue and respond to S.C. from the above

Regarding the strong defense of the Toshvah - you ignore the fact that in the end the Gemara testifies that "these and those are the words of the living God" so that until they ruled, some acted this way and others acted differently. On the one hand, you say a strong defense, while you see in the end how many inaccuracies in practice so far and a rabbi is speaking out and saying that the Halacha has spread rapidly everywhere in the world and there are no foreign customs. It is a pity, also see the story about R. Eliezer and the sages during the Second Temple period, on the oven of this unclean Achnai, and these are the ones who prepare it, a divine voice came out, whose words you rejected because it is not in the heavens, but you continued to say and scream here - the law does not change and has spread uniformly throughout the diaspora of the world - really accurate, you have taken authority for yourselves to do whatever comes to your mind.
In the Talmud, it is narrated about Tanna Levi bar Sisi, who was a close associate of Rabbi Yehuda the President, that he happened to be in the house of Joseph the hunter and they brought before him a peacock's head in milk and he did not eat it, because he did not believe, like Rabbi Yossi of Galilee, that it is permissible to eat chicken with milk. —–> Go out and learn how right and accurate you were when you said that the law spread very quickly….. (in the book of Nehor).
Therefore, the prophet said “And what comes to your mind would be that you will not live, I am the word of the Lord’. “